dagblog - Comments for "One Russian in Four Lacks an Indoor Toilet, One of Many Signs There are Now ‘Four Distinct Russias’" http://dagblog.com/link/one-russian-four-lacks-indoor-toilet-one-many-signs-there-are-now-four-distinct-russias-27177 Comments for "One Russian in Four Lacks an Indoor Toilet, One of Many Signs There are Now ‘Four Distinct Russias’" en I suspect this is nothing new http://dagblog.com/comment/263526#comment-263526 <a id="comment-263526"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/263525#comment-263525">good comment on the tweet:</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I suspect this is nothing new from the moment of the industrial revolution or before - people will follow the money/jobs, the younger &amp; stronger backs/minds who are happy for the lower pay will get them, the rest can go pound sand (for free). When tech shifts, former hubs may wane if they don't evolve or are essential to the new tech.</p> <p>And there's a lot of playing increasingly dire odds. For example, lots of companies have tried to compete in cloud services, but the same top 3-4 suspects control almost all the business. Follow this same phenom to most every new sector. There aren't a lot of new Facebooks and Googles and Salesforce and Ubers - that opportunity for innovation breakthrough has largely passed. The Titans manage to assimilate most new things, even if they do a crappy job (Google glass and a bunch of other expensive failures)</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:50:41 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 263526 at http://dagblog.com good comment on the tweet: http://dagblog.com/comment/263525#comment-263525 <a id="comment-263525"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/one-russian-four-lacks-indoor-toilet-one-many-signs-there-are-now-four-distinct-russias-27177">One Russian in Four Lacks an Indoor Toilet, One of Many Signs There are Now ‘Four Distinct Russias’</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>good comment on the above tweet:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">heartbreaking, but hypergrowth of mega cities + hyperfast decline of everywhere else is a pattern in US, UK, Poland, Hungary etc as “service industry Era “ necessitates workforce aggregated in mega centres. Then cost of supporting old people outside “work zones” skyrockets</p> — eva pascoe (@EvaPascoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaPascoe/status/1082896778670821376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 08:15:13 +0000 artappraiser comment 263525 at http://dagblog.com