Creating jobs doesn’t look to me like a task for a startup. Every startup that works automatically creates good jobs.
With luck, marijuana legalization will give people a less harmful and cheaper way of escaping from reality for a bit.
The evidence doesn’t suggest that marijuana legalization increases consumption.
Mine will deposit a check if I take a picture of it in their app, but that requires an expensive smartphone.
You get an Android smartphone for 29.99$. When the iPhone was introduced it was expensive but as technology progresses yesterday’s inventions get cheap and accessible to more people.
I’d have to look up some figures to double check, but generally speaking cities get a disproportionately large amount of tax revenue pumped into them.
Not in contrast to the tax revenue they raise. More government money get’s transferred from cities to rural parts then the other way around.
However, a priori it seems like cities don’t have any resources, while in the country there’s no shortage of rocks for concrete or timber for construction
Shipping rocks around is cheap. Inventing new ways of doing things with rocks is more important for generating new jobs and it’s generally done in cities where people with different ideas and skills congregate.
Thanks. Your 1st 4 comments look spot on. I was skeptical of the 4th one until googling it:
More government money get’s transferred from cities to rural parts then the other way around.
I was unsure whether the effect I claimed was as large as commonly believed, but I didn’t expect it to be outright false. I’ve found a couple thing confirming your point, and a likely bias page complaining that per capita spending is less in rural areas. Even if that’s true, it would just mean that rural areas collectively weren’t earning enough to pay their “fair share” in taxes. Not exactly prime material for the red tribe narrative.
Shipping rocks around is cheap
As I understand it, the price of things like gravel goes up pretty linearly with the distance to the nearest quarry. But the broader point is valid for lighter materials that you need less of to make something. I’m not sure which category concrete falls into. Ceramics are fairly dependent on use. There’s nothing wrong with shipping ceramics for space shuttle tiles or semiconductors around the world. That’s a bigger issue for large products with higher tighter profit margins.
When Mao prepared his Great Leap forward he thought that it doesn’t make sense to have the factories in the cities. He thought it would be much better to move them to the country-side.
That was one of the worst economic decisions in history, because a lot of those relocated factories stopped working.
It turns out that having factories near other factories is useful. Millions starved.
These days we know how to run a steel mill or a car man well enough to have it in a rural area but in the beginning they had to be in cities.
Creating jobs doesn’t look to me like a task for a startup. Every startup that works automatically creates good jobs.
The evidence doesn’t suggest that marijuana legalization increases consumption.
You get an Android smartphone for 29.99$. When the iPhone was introduced it was expensive but as technology progresses yesterday’s inventions get cheap and accessible to more people.
Not in contrast to the tax revenue they raise. More government money get’s transferred from cities to rural parts then the other way around.
Shipping rocks around is cheap. Inventing new ways of doing things with rocks is more important for generating new jobs and it’s generally done in cities where people with different ideas and skills congregate.
Thanks. Your 1st 4 comments look spot on. I was skeptical of the 4th one until googling it:
I was unsure whether the effect I claimed was as large as commonly believed, but I didn’t expect it to be outright false. I’ve found a couple thing confirming your point, and a likely bias page complaining that per capita spending is less in rural areas. Even if that’s true, it would just mean that rural areas collectively weren’t earning enough to pay their “fair share” in taxes. Not exactly prime material for the red tribe narrative.
As I understand it, the price of things like gravel goes up pretty linearly with the distance to the nearest quarry. But the broader point is valid for lighter materials that you need less of to make something. I’m not sure which category concrete falls into. Ceramics are fairly dependent on use. There’s nothing wrong with shipping ceramics for space shuttle tiles or semiconductors around the world. That’s a bigger issue for large products with higher tighter profit margins.
When Mao prepared his Great Leap forward he thought that it doesn’t make sense to have the factories in the cities. He thought it would be much better to move them to the country-side.
That was one of the worst economic decisions in history, because a lot of those relocated factories stopped working. It turns out that having factories near other factories is useful. Millions starved.
These days we know how to run a steel mill or a car man well enough to have it in a rural area but in the beginning they had to be in cities.