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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by wolverine876 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:37PM (#29097881)
Thank you. I'm not sure what the data means to you. Those look like reasonable salaries to me, though I don't work in those fields.

> why waste time proving this when urban decay is a constant, documented situation?

Urban decay is a meme, like urban crime. Crime is, generally speaking, at generational lows (shootings and murders are up, but that's nationwide, not urban, and those are only a fraction of crimes), but some people imagine cities infested with it.

There are certainly urban problems with infrastructure, but using memes doesn't tell me what we're talking about.

IME the common narrative is that lots of people, especially these days, want to cut taxes and then complain about reduced services.

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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by mistrial9 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:35PM (#29098612)
> I'm not sure what the data means to you.

wages for labor in the US have stayed flat or decreased overall, since the late 1980s.. these figures are competitive for high-tech or other specialized work. The roads are not only not well-maintained, this is a top-10 worst city in the US roads place.. so wages+benefits go up and yet the work result is worse than comparable other cities

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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by wolverine876 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:12PM (#29101060)
> these figures are competitive for high-tech or other specialized work

They are about what I'd expect. Should they be underpaid like much of labor? Is it the worker's fault that the roads are in bad shape? I doubt it.

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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by mistrial9 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:31PM (#29100560)
> want to cut taxes

local taxes such as sales and property tax, state income tax, plus federal tax, make this city objectively to be some of the highest total tax in the USA for working people (probably related to the high city wages for ordinary positions)

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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by mistrial9 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:07PM (#29098292)
the city mentioned in consistantly "top 10 most dangerous cities to live in the US"; there are gunshots in neighborhoods multiple times per week, with corresponding fatalities .. sometimes those not involved at all are shot, too.. similar environment to parts of Chicago I hear
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Re:The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets by wolverine876 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:11PM (#29102207)
What do 'parts of Chicago' have to do with it? I'm lost on the relationship. Unless your point is that both are memes, as I was saying above somewhere.
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