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Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris — attract all the best jobs while becoming repellently expensive, reducing economic mobility and contributing to further bifurcation between haves and have-nots. But why don't the best jobs move elsewhere?
Of course, many of them can't. The average financier in NYC or London (until Brexit annihilates London's banking industry, of course...) would be laughed out of the office, and not invited back, if they told their boss they wanted to henceforth work from Chiang Mai.
But this isn't true of (much of) the software field. The average web/app developer might have such a request declined; but they would not be laughed at, or fired. The demand for good developers greatly outstrips supply, and in this era of Skype and Slack, there's nothing about software development that requires meatspace interactions.
[...]Some people will tell you that remote teams are inherently less effective and productive than localized ones, or that "serendipitous collisions" are so important that every employee must be forced to the same physical location every day so that these collisions can be manufactured. These people are wrong, as long as the team in question is small — on the order of handfuls, dozens or scores, rather than hundreds or thousands — and flexible.
Because the feedlot isn't hiring for Ruby?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:11AM (4 children)
from huffpo to naturalnews to infowars, this thread has really gone down the crazy drain
its not a good look for anti-city folk
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday April 05 2017, @03:47AM (3 children)
There should be no reason for any authority to be fucking with peoples' gardens or willingness to collect rainwater for home use. That crosses the line from keeping the peace to jackboot thuggery and extortion, and sends the disturbing message that no, they don't want you to be self-sufficient even if you are helping the environment and reducing the city infrastructure burden in the process.
There are entire non-affluent towns even in rural California where the codes are aggressive and the code-enforcement people do nothing but drive around all day looking to cite people for untrimmed grass and shrubbery.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:46AM (2 children)
> no, they don't want you to be self-sufficient
For the inherently satanic power system, which spans most, dare I say all nations, self-sufficiency IS subversion. Beyond the flags and the ideologies, the system works in the same way and does not need any other unifying/synchronizing factor than greed (or the actual satan whose existence I wouldn't discard on principle).
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @06:32PM (1 child)
The SYSTEM totally wants to stop you growing carrots, dude. That's what the the alien hieroglyphs were warning us about in the pyramids.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 07 2017, @11:15PM
The system want you to need their fiat currency either through work or by aid. It's the same, it keeps you dependent.