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Rural Towns Are Aging, Cash-Strapped and in Desperate Need of Workers (www.wsj.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave to c/economics

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

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[–] RedAggroBest 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Essentially tells Lemmy, who are 90% terminally online, to touch grass

Even if you didn't mean it that way, that seems to be how people are taking it. You're right tho, people who can't entertain themselves outside are boring..

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[–] Anticorp 1 points 4 months ago

Why would they care what's going on in the town if they're terminally online and never leave their house?

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