Remote work enables “geo-arbitrage.” Your tech salary can flow from hubs like SF and NY towards smaller communities and local businesses.

I’ll admit, I enjoy seeing my startup career inject SF money into Hudson Valley grocers, farm stands, brewers, roasters, etc.

“The future is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed.”

This is how it becomes more distributed — when you can do work that was formerly restricted to a handful of Alpha cities from the place where you always wanted to life.

To be fair, this isn’t anything new.

If you work for the local branch of a national bank, you’re doing the same thing.

The difference is that now there doesn’t need to be a local branch. For jobs like product design, anywhere there’s wifi can be the local branch.