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Well yeah, that's just some weird French place we bought and turned into a slave labor camp.

But memes about suicide nets aside, Chinese factory workers are there by their own choice, because it's better than their alternatives, and we've eliminated such choices by simply making it illegal to have the low cost of living it requires.

This was done to make the poor underclass go away (homeless people) but it also makes this type of working class (factory workers) go away. Luckily for us, we have a service economy with email jobs for them to work instead.






>Well yeah, that's just some weird French place we bought and turned into a slave labor camp.

Well pack it up, that, the Evangeline legend and the Katrina episode of Boondocks round the tale out. Nothing else to see here.

(Actually, the slave labor camp is Mississippi these days [1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9354922; https://web.archive.org/web/20201108140152/https://in.news.y...


I mean, I was just thinking about the civil law system.

The problems I described are mostly in blue states, although Texas has different problems that somehow result in basically the same issues. Like Houston doesn't have zoning, but still ends up with sprawl due to other restrictions.


Unless you’re dealing with wills and stuff, and real property the civil law system isn’t really affecting people that much because you have to have some compatibility with the other 49 states. Even divorce is not as unique as it was. But yeah, it still is a disadvantage to incorporate here.



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