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Consider a cleaner living in Alabama. In 1960 they could move to NYC and earn wages 84% higher, and still end up with 70% higher income after rent. In 2010, they could move to New York City and become 28% more productive, and earn a wage 28% higher – and reduce the surplus of workers back home, letting them demand higher pay. But since housing costs are so much higher, the net earnings and living standards of someone like this would fall if they moved today, and wouldn’t be worth it.
The Housing Theory of Everything - Works in Progress
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Retail employees and office workers arrived early and took the best street spots, and when customers or clients arrived, they found no space at the curb. Studies estimated that approximately 30 percent of traffic in congested central business districts consisted of cars looking for parking.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Using the right roads has never precluded destroying the wrong ones.
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