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How remote work hollows out local economies

I work remotely for a tech company while my local coffee shop closed because people like me stopped coming in, and I feel complicit in my community's decline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Distributed work patterns concentrate wealth in some places while depleting others.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and inequality — who benefits who pays?”

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