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dontbeevil1992

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dontbeevil1992··on "Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
for certain people, the point of a market is not to meet people's needs, it is to "function efficiently," so they'll never think a failure to meet society's need is a market failure, that's just "the way things are, money doesn't grow on trees commie!"
dontbeevil1992··on Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
or instead of dismissing people's grievances as illogical, you can skip the strawman phase and engage with the real issues as I and others have described here
dontbeevil1992··on Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
moving is not just a reversion to the mean. A neighborhood is more than atomized individuals who live there. There can be a community of people which form a network and a support system that is many years old. Pricing certain people out can rip apart these communities, so it's not just a matter of relocating then continuing as you were.

Then there are the individual-level logistical problems. What does moving do to your commute? Is it easy to find a new job? Will your kids have to go to a different school district?

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