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Re: Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas

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Post by tomjen3 » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

LeanderK wrote: post #157

tomjen3 wrote: post #128

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Of the top of my head I can't remember a single big online thing targeting consumers that Germany does. The US has google, facebook, twitter etc, so rather than say Germany has figured out how to do tech in a small town, I would rather think it is accurate for Germany not to have figured out the tech at all. I know they make cars with electronics in them, but honestly I haven't seen a car with electronics that fundam…

well, german tech is not really into the business of targeting consumers. You can critizise it, but you can't deny that germany has a large high-tech industry. I was making the observation that the tech industry in germany is quite spread out and that the solutions here could be applicable to rural america.

Fair enough. Which software businesses targeting business does Germany have, worth over 500 million USD?

Re: Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas

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Post by jelliclesfarm » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

randomdata wrote: post #160

jelliclesfarm wrote: post #154

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Thank you!! I am not enamoured with that kind of lifestyle. I love living in the Bay Area and especially Silicon Valley..love the weather here. I like sci fi and going to opera in the city ..I like hiking and still be able to slink back into my cave or just spend time needing out on soil and gardening by myself. Where else can we find a place like Silicon Valley..the hype is so spot on. That’s why I fret when it keep…

> There is also a lot of hostility to technology in Ag. There is? As a farmer myself, I find that agriculture runs at the forefront of technology. It is why I love agriculture as we get to play with the cool tech before the masses do. There are pockets of people who are more interested in a homesteading lifestyle than farming, but any serious commercial operation will jump over any advantageous tech available to them…

Obviously there are different scales when it comes to farming operations.

I like to categorize it as sub 50 acres(5-50 acres), sub 100 acres and sub 1000 acres.

Margins are still low.

It becomes more capital intensive and access to land and labour are also factors.

Re: Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas

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Post by LyndsySimon » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 2:27 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #147

LyndsySimon wrote: post #106

Education is not the issue, in my experience - career opportunities are. I work remotely and live in a rural area. To get my career to the point where I could reliably find remote work, I moved to Charlottesville, VA for five years. Meanwhile, of the 20 or so people I’ve tracked down with two-year degrees intended to train them for tech jobs, exactly zero have done so. The primary problem that I see is that no one wa…

Speaking as someone who mostly works remotely (after multiple decades of working in an office most of the time), I have a lot of trouble envisioning coming out of school and sitting in an apartment at my computer all day. Sure, there are consulting jobs where you spend most of your days at a client site or otherwise don't work from an office much. Perhaps had I had a job like that I'd feel differently. But going stra…

It would have been for me, too - without the school, though, as I didn’t graduate.

That’s my point. Where does someone in a rural area get the experience to make that transition effectively?

Re: Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas

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Post by shard972 » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 5:34 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #144

shard972 wrote: post #143

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> How will a non Christian “integrate” into rural America and “share their values”, by converting to Christianity? How will either a gay couple or an interracial couple “integrate” where some Christians think their “lifestyle” is a sin? Probably better than a gay in rural iraq, iran, syria, jordan, isreal, china, japan, india, africa and many other countries.

But we aren’t talking about other countries. We are talking about rural America vs larger cities.

Ok, so as a homosexual, i find it easier to integrate into rural and "Christian" communities than cities.

So the answer is, it's actually easier when you have a coherent moral ideology as opposed to a modern one with no consistency.