The Unseen Threat to America: We Don’t Leave Our Hometowns(time.com)
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The Unseen Threat to America: We Don’t Leave Our Hometowns
http://time.com/4677919/tyler-cowen-book/
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It seems the implication is that America today is less adventurous than in the past. Maybe.
But the job market for most of us who can find work is rather homogenous, and worse, the likelihood of employer assistance is scant.
And if one already lives in a area with a robust job market, why leave?
The article's source - The Complacent Class -- says it all. My question is whether the author means job seekers or job creators have become complacent.
I'd like to see how this correlates to a decline in financial security. Obviously speaking to the wrong crowd here, as software engineers it's likely that most of us are relatively well off, but my generation (80's 90's) are mostly unable to afford a comfortable relocation.
People I know outside of tech are nowhere NEAR being able to buy a house, they barely even have a financial buffer to speak of. I'd wager this has a huge correlation to whether or not people are comfortable moving.
People I know outside of tech are nowhere NEAR being able to buy a house, they barely even have a financial buffer to speak of. I'd wager this has a huge correlation to whether or not people are comfortable moving.
"The Unseen Threat to America..." is an magazine article that is a pile of claims and assertions that omits the appropriate background suitable for a thinking person to judge the claims.
The editing removed the author's disclosure of purpose, removed the methodology, removed the inquiry explanation, and removed the sources of data.
Also I found that the entire Time Magazine website is deliberately organized to prevent any reader from posting any comment.
In it's edited form, this article is the creation of yet another kind of insecurity, confusion and fear.
Regarding the basic thesis that "We Don't leave our hometowns." The author doesn't pay the slightest attention to demographics (we already moved 30 years ago) nor the outrageous rents and home prices of Northern California.
Here is the big puzzle. Why are the Editors of Time Magazine publishing such an article? I suspect that Time shares a view of it's readers that People Magazine has: It is a publication for sitting on the toilet and having a brief transient "wish I was one of the beautiful people" moment.
The editing removed the author's disclosure of purpose, removed the methodology, removed the inquiry explanation, and removed the sources of data.
Also I found that the entire Time Magazine website is deliberately organized to prevent any reader from posting any comment.
In it's edited form, this article is the creation of yet another kind of insecurity, confusion and fear.
Regarding the basic thesis that "We Don't leave our hometowns." The author doesn't pay the slightest attention to demographics (we already moved 30 years ago) nor the outrageous rents and home prices of Northern California.
Here is the big puzzle. Why are the Editors of Time Magazine publishing such an article? I suspect that Time shares a view of it's readers that People Magazine has: It is a publication for sitting on the toilet and having a brief transient "wish I was one of the beautiful people" moment.