Tulsa Doubles Down on Paying Remote Workers $10k to Move There

This article doesn't address whether Tulsa, State of Oklahoma, or Topeka have addressed some of the underlying reasons why tech workers (who, after all, have opportunities elsewhere, and can leave) might not choose Tulsa, Topeka, Oklahoma or Kansas.

Does OK or KS have those weird "Noncompete laws" that prevent people from changing jobs? What about the "intellectual property" laws where your employer owns all of your ideas, even if they're not work-related, and worked on after hours?

KS public education is a disaster after 8 years of Opposite World "growth-oriented" tax policies. In fact, the entire state of Kansas appears down-at-the-heel, apparently because of the low tax revenues under Gov. Brownback's economic policies. Population growth seems to have fallen off a cliff since 2010: https://www.macrotrends.net/states/kansas/population Oklahoma doesn't seem to have suffer quite as much of drop in population growth.

Looks like Oklahoma's public education is at least as bad as Kansas': https://www.edmondsun.com/opinion/columns/oklahoma-s-dismal-...

How are you going to retain younger workers with children if your public education system is so poor? And let's not even get into the issues like shying away from teaching facts like evolution.

Paying "remote workers" $10k to live someplace for a year strikes me as a doctrinaire free market solution to a problem that has many more real causes than just money.