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.

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“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.
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