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I'd have to ask. how does one with no economic or social means just move to a brand new area and start anew if they have 0 job prospects or skills or even demand in the area they are in? I hear this tossed around a ton like people can just teleport to a job and que the movie montage where in just 5mins they've completely 180'd their life back to middle class. Say we are talking about someone with no means of transportation, 0 in the bank, an average resume thats not even landing jobs at a gas station and education is high school diploma. Without begging for rides and relying upon someone else to get their foot in the door how do you go about reversing course?. (Bonus points) its the middle of the 2008 recession and nothing is hiring.
I do believe there is just waaaay to much corporate protectionism in the sense that they can get away with murder on the work force and always got a policy to protect them from failing. I get it jobs are important and bring money to the area they are in and within the state along with employing people to put money back into the economy which is good but really I think people give corporations way to much leeway with how they can operate and how their employees are neglected. Again not advocating for communism/socialist as those wish to make jobs even more scarce and pay higher for just one or two employees while everyone else gets cut because a job cannot afford head count.
One guy wants to empower corporations so much to become its own state
The other wants to empower the "people" which becomes its own entity and forces jobs to relocate
What I am asking for is where is the specific place in the US I could move where I wouldn't have to worry about lobbyists and socialists making life more complicated than it needs to be when life is already as rough as it needs to be with trial and error. To be clear not asking for free hand outs or the "ME ME ME" whiny millennial thing just asking a simple hypothetical question.
There are places, but you make a valid point - to relocate costs money most folks do not have. West Texas and North Dakota oil fields, or Alaska's oil fields are examples where one can pretty much show up to a jobsite with zero skills, but a positive attitude, a set of steel toe boots and a hard hat and walk onto a job as a green horn. Its long hours, dirty, manual labor, but if your open to learning they will teach you and you can move up from the lowest levels into getting trained on the skills necessary to make the big bucks. But for someone from say, LaGrande, Oregon to move to say, Odessa, Texas is going to cost at minimum a few hundred bucks in gas and food, and that's sleeping in the car and not getting a motel room. And they're still going to need work boots, a hard hat, gloves, and at least one set of work-appropriate clothes.
You can say where there is a will, there is a way, but that's just words and not everyone has the acuity to see how to accomplish it. Even in the height of the recession, there were places still begging to fill jobs, but there are a lot of people who lack the skill, lack the work ethic, or lack the desire to do the work. Even in the best economy ever, you have a class of people that is simply unemployable for any given reason.