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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by tluyben2 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:21PM (#31062955)
How? If you can travel back and forth and that makes it work, what is the problem? You can hate it, sure, but, at least where I live, people commute 3+ hours/day to make a nice living while living cheap. What is wrong with that?
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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by lotsofpulp on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:24PM (#31062990)
The increase in the world’s entropy is not priced into the commuting costs, so it is artificially cheap living. Assuming an inhabitable planet with clean air and water is a goal, then commuting 3 hours would not be cheap.
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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by tluyben2 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:26AM (#31108531)
You are right, but you can stimulate wfh and stimulate companies to spread out more. The fact a lot of people are against that (including here on HN) shows that it's all great, but not in my backyard.
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