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by pyuser583 30 days ago
I heard it tries to compensate for the expensiveness of living in Alaska - and fails.

The real source of “economic equality” is a ready supply of jobs for blue collar workers - oil, fishing, tourism, etc.

And the fact poor people leave, and don’t come in the first place.

I’ve heard similar things about Sweden: social welfare to avoid massive deaths by ice.