With younger labor in short supply, aging workers often find themselves pulling double—or triple—duty to keep towns afloat

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  • Riskable
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    252 months ago

    Duh: Rural towns usually have terrible Internet. Who would want to live with that every day‽

    That, and they’re also full of MAGA-type Republicans that hate anyone and everyone who isn’t exactly like them.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      With the way rural voters get disproportionate voting power its insane that rural broadband isn’t everywhere. Shows how money interests take over rural interests in that party

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      2 months ago

      Duh: Rural towns usually have terrible Internet. Who would want to live with that every day‽

      In my experience this isn’t always the case. A small town I lived in once had gigabit for $80/month whereas the city I lived in before that had 250mbps internet for something absurd like $270/month and it even had a bandwidth cap.

      Right now I live in the middle of nowhere and the fastest thing available is 100mbps but it’s only $50/month. I probably have a better internet situation than most people at least in terms of what I’m getting for the price.

      I think some small internet companies just didn’t get the memo on enshitification.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      I live in a very small town, and I have 1.5 Gbps internet, and haven’t met a single trumper.