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When economic progress displaces you from home

I make more money than my parents ever did but I cannot afford to live where I grew up and I feel like I am floating without roots anywhere.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual economic advancement often requires severing connections to place and community that once provided identity and belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Industrial revolution and its human cost?”

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