• @[email protected]
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    17 hours ago

    I’ve been to those towns in AZ. The world would lose nothing if they went away.

    I don’t see any similar outcry about places like Jerome that went to shit when their mines disappeared. Of course, in those cases, the only people hurt were the mine workers.

    • snooggums
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      416 hours ago

      Honestly the communities would probably improve if people had better paying jobs because they weren’t competing against slave labor.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        Thing is: There’s nothing there

        The only businesses I saw in those towns were a lunch counter, the prison, and a shop selling “souvenirs” made by prisoners. Without the prison, there goes 2/3 of your economy (well, probably a lot more than 2/3 unless you pull a serious lunch crowd). So now your town is just a lunch counter in the middle of the desert. If you’re lucky, maybe there’s a tourist attraction further down the highway bringing travelers who will keep your restaurant open.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          214 hours ago

          …I mean…how was the lunch? Good?

        • snooggums
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          Yeah, if it is just one or two businesses in the middle of nowhere without customers, it should fail.

          That isn’t a community.