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Comment by Karishma1234 | Hacker News Reader

These are mostly elitist concerns. The ordinary folks on the ground often turn out to be pretty happy. They have a routine life, friends and community and they simply dont care about opportunities at that point.

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...what? Flyover country doesn't care about their jobs and their economies?

Suicide rates[0] and drug abuse statistics would suggest otherwise.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm

Ohio, featured in the article, is only slightly above the national average. Is that significant?

Ideally we'd have more granular data. Not all of Ohio is dead--it has several major metropolitan areas. And, likewise, the Central Valley in CA probably isn't doing that great, but it's outweighed by the California cities.

They care about their routine more than jobs and economy. Suicide rates may not be correlated (or causing) with jobs and economy. Else India and China should have had big sucide rates.

Not caring about opportunities then feeling wronged when it turns out you should have is not really the rest of the world's fault

That is how it works out in most cases. So many women having fatherless children and then complaining that government is not giving them child care benefits. People not taking care of their health when young and then demanding government pay for their electric scooter, millennials demanding government should pay their edu bills so on.

People want to have their cake and eat it too.

Employment is elitist?

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