• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      11 days ago

      …But nobody wants to live there.

      You could give a bunch of homeless people housing, but there’s simply no structure around it. They have no money, and there’s no jobs. There’s no services around. They won’t be much better off than homeless in a big city tbh. Might be WORSE off.

      There needs to be available housing near the places where there’s actually things to do, jobs to hold, services to use.

      Worst part is, I bet a LOT of those ghots towns are suburban, not urban - so it makes it more difficult and expensive to build up a new community there. Everything is spaced out

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      11 days ago

      They need economic activity to be livable. Shoving broke people onto a reservation doesn’t accomplish that.

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        11 days ago

        They create the economic activity.

        More people living in an area means there’s more to do and more people to do it.

        On average, each additional person contributes more than they take out.

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          10 days ago

          They create the economic activity.

          You have to go back and actually read Kapital.

          More people living in an area means there’s more to do and more people to do it.

          Visit a refugee camp and explain that to the locals

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        11 days ago

        Forgive my ignorance; I don’t know much about Siberia other than it is desolate and not much fun. How did that turn out?

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      11 days ago

      You need jobs near those places first. The locations are dying because of lack of industry.

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          11 days ago

          That’s really not how it works. If you’re homeless you’re not in a position to be a job creator.

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            11 days ago

            More people living in a location means there is more work to be done and more people to do it.

            Each additional person, on average, can contribute more than they take out.

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              10 days ago

              More people living in a location means there is more work to be done and more people to do it.

              If that were universally applicable the towns wouldn’t be dying to begin with. The houses are empty because there’s a lack of available work.