re: #291 Anymouse 🌹

My slow-ass service is $120 a month. It will rise in April to $140. Maybe I can get $40 Internet if I sign up for dial-up in Denver, I don’t know.

What is this “mobile workforce” of which you speak? Here we call that “migrant farm workers.”

The only way to stop the drain from rural areas is to invest in rural areas. Late-stage capitalism is only interested in this quarter’s profits, not the next generation of people living somewhere.

Since you’re not going to get rid of the Electoral College, these areas being hollowed out by greed of corporations and lack of investment by government will grow only more resentful.

The Republicans are not going to bring faster, less expensive Internet to rural areas. They need to vote for Democrats if they want that to happen. Modern businesses can’t set up in rural areas if there’s poor Internet connectivity.

The mobile workforce are people who work for smart companies that understand that they save money by using remote workers and meeting over Skype, self-employed software developers, and remote contract workers in our crappy gig economy. With housing costs low in rural areas, short-term contract work is a lot more viable than in expensive cities and suburbs, but you have to have Democrats built out the Internet for that to be viable. Accepting Republican lies will kill rural America.