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Originally posted by Desert_Rat:
A factory closure shouldn't be a source of permanent poverty if its workers are resilient and have an instinct to survive rather than staying in the same old town wallowing in self pity.

The ambitious and the intelligent will always find success. It's more character than circumstance.
Never been to the rust belt, have you?
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist