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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:50AM (#35976018)
Equalising world GDP will be good in the long run at least. Of course it sucks if it happens to be you on the chopping block
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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by RestlessMind on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:26AM (#35976675)
> good in the long run

And extremely disastrous in the short run. If societies lose good paying jobs, that is asking for a populist uprising which typically goes pretty bad pretty soon.

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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by ejb999 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:15AM (#35976513)
It won't be good for 50% of the people/countries that are already above average - it will only be good for the 50% below average.
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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by hirako2000 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:50AM (#35977076)
And more justice for all.
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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by devnullbrain on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @02:49PM (#35979558)
Only if the level of happiness is constant, which it isn't.
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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by osigurdson on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:01AM (#35997959)
I've never understood macro-economics. How is it possible that in one country $70K USD is barely scraping by while in another country that is $2K. The base inputs to the economy are global commodities.
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