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by offtop5 1847 days ago
>Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy?

Not at all, it's structural problem. I've seen this in LA as well and it's the number one reason I left. Since I lack the personal capacity to fix LA, I no longer live there.

If anything if you live in a city or a nation where unemployment is rampant , you just need to leave. Not worry about what the government is going to do to fix it.
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consp 1847 days ago
> you just need to leave. Not worry about what the government is going to do to fix it.

I'm voiding the HN policy and assuming bad faith since you either lack the empathy to see that not everyone is able to "just leave" or you have an agenda to make this a talking point. I'm hoping it is the later.

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justicezyx 1847 days ago
Do you leave in LA, or had a long and deep history living LA?

Wondering where your bad faith come from.

Back in the old days where I live in China, there were plenty of situations where people had no other way to engage the economy, and had to be lazy. They gamble, they prostitute, they murder as well. The government was absolutely powerless to do anything, simply because they had no whatever resources to fix those. Then people just left. Look at what's happening in China's north east provinces. Same situation.

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Answerawake 1847 days ago
According to this [1] the unemployment rate in LA is 9.9% vs Chicago 7.5% Is that really the difference between a thriving city and an unlivable hellhole?

What I am getting at is trying to figure out which city minimizes the types of "idiots" you are referring to and i'm finding that no city is really like that. Every city has these kinds of problems to some extent as well as positive aspects.

Maybe you just like a smaller city? ~2-3 vs ~12 million is a big difference.

[1]:https://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm

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krustyburger 1847 days ago
Your experiences are completely different from mine. LA is the second largest city in the US, so I’m sure it contains all extremes. But in my experience it is full of young people who are striving and hustling. There seem to be more young people there with passionate professional dreams than most places.

Chicago is also huge- maybe you just got lucky in making your move?

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oblio 1847 days ago
Leave where?... How...? Many of these South Africans are rock bottom poor.
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