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Mmmslash t1_je18hly wrote

Reply to comment by AvogadrosMoleSauce in Connecticut Children's wants to spend $47 million on a parking garage in a city awash with parking by bomgd3

No - the community needs to vote better so you don't lose these jobs to a smaller and more accommodating market, so they have nearby access to this resource.

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AvogadrosMoleSauce t1_je194qx wrote

How does having the jobs in the city benefit it? If the employees are just driving in, working, going home then they're not doing much to benefit it. In fact, with traffic and air pollution, they may cause the community more harm than good.

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Mmmslash t1_je19o8q wrote

Because those people spend the majority of their waking hours contributing to your local economy instead of someone else's. Because those people provide a nearby critical resource to your community. Because having educated health workers in your city is a universal benefit.

What an impossibly shortsighted take.

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