Small towns are small for a reason. Make nothing, have nothing. If they made a living wage but chose to buy noting making nothing in town because stores would not make money from the lack of sales then that is a sign of depression they need medication! The wages do have to go up or have most of their people just doing without. Small towns need to be brought up but if they are broke they can't.
With the changes and uprising of the knowledge economy smaller towns can't compete with bigger cities. Life is slower in the country. Small towns don't have the resources or the pot of people with money. In small towns the workers will be just harassed by the push for productivity push more likely quitting their job in four months. Like Tulsa has their gathering place but in small towns they have plastic bottles floating in the pond. Sad like my college professor said "If you are raised in the corn field your mind is only mushed in the corn field you live in." Relating to keeping your mind active or you loose it. "Use it or loose it!" More education is needed but education is like good credit it cost money you have to buy something for good credit. And so is where the state needs to educate it's people, raise the pay for the support!
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609076/in-these-small-cities-ai-advances-could-be-costly
Why the deficiency? Something from the dark ages where the lack of enlightenment makes them easy to control. But then only to have riots burning down their Library of Alexandria over a door knob tax! Deprived of education living badly or living badly because they like it that way nerveless it makes others suffer along with them as going low is like quick sand. So that brings up the point of the quote "Big city bright lights." It has nothing to do with lights. Enlightenment! Back in the 1900's if you wanted to go to college you had to go to the big city. Thus educated people lived in the city. Explaining the other term for the time "Simple minded farmers." Shown by the need to educate the farmers in the dust bowl days. The government had to bring these people up and they had to talk slowly to the farmers so they would get it. Sad, why are they that way in the first place.
***Hugh Hammond Bennett, who came to be known as "the father of soil conservation," had been leading a campaign to reform farming practices well before Roosevelt became president. Bennett called for "...a tremendous national awakening to the need for action in bettering our agricultural practices." He urged a new approach to farming in order to avoid similar catastrophes.
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1583.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hammond_Bennett
So these days in smaller towns do need to be brought up like the farmers in the dust bowl days or like the dust bowl will The knowledge economy be bad for small towns! So without higher wages and support there will be a fail to the knowledge economy it will be for the rich people that can afford it not for the poor that walks with no car showing up to work tired from the walk in the heat. No business wants workers that cant take of themselves because they cant take care of the workplace it's not sustainable long term. The minimum wage needs to go up for the workers to afford to get brought up to compete in the changes!
***60% of employees bring their financial stress into the workplace, so how do employers help keep their employees financially well and focused? We traveled to Huntsville to answer that question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwUDsjeOlE
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2018/11/03/tale-of-two-minimum-wages-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/mobile-digital-shorts
