Nornagest comments on Non-standard politics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 24 October 2014 11:10:07PM *  2 points [-]

If we were to decide that local homogeneity of values is something we wanted to encourage -- which I'm not sure of -- a subsidy for moving costs would probably help, but I don't think it's sufficient to overcome the inertia that keeps e.g. Texans with Californian values in Texas. People have lots of ties to a place besides the purely financial: moving implies leaving friends and often family, finding a new job and new housing, probably learning a certain amount of new cultural content, etc.

Comment author: taelor 25 October 2014 04:01:45AM 3 points [-]

I wouldn't expect such a subsidy to overcome inertia in all cases. I expect it would help on the margins, though.