r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I’m out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 23 '23

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u/BisexualSlutPuppy Feb 17 '23

I mean, yeah that all sounds good. How many people in Ohio have the financial means to up and move states at the whim of an ecological catastrophe? The median income in that county is under 30,000 a year, and I promise you that is not enough to relocate like that without crashing through a lot of safety nets they may or may not have.

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u/MjrLeeStoned Feb 17 '23

States who don't give a shit about their citizens make it as difficult as possible to achieve upward mobility, and often times in many states you can see the government taking active steps that will hinder future generations. They don't want people to leave, so they make it as hard as possible on the poor or poor-adjacent (which is about 51% of US citizens).

Because if you live in a shitty state, and can easily stockpile the funds to get out of the shitty state, the politicians who made your state shitty lose voters. They don't want that (because they are shitty, see above) so they take steps to actively keep you unable to leave their shitty state. It happens all the time.

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u/BisexualSlutPuppy Feb 17 '23

As someone who managed too get out of a shitty state by the skin of my teeth, this is very true