{"id":85893,"date":"2023-09-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85893"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:11:29","slug":"85893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85893","title":{"rendered":"Dubious Motivations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this tweet from Governor Klink, and it brought me back in time almost (cough cough) years, to when I was trying to decide what to do after college:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When I\u2019m asked why young people should move to Minnesota, I tell them we\u2019re:<br>\u00a0<br>\u2714\ufe0fProtecting rights, not taking them away<br>\u2714\ufe0fMaking a generational investment in housing<br>\u2714\ufe0fEstablishing paid leave<br>\u2714\ufe0fPreparing Minnesotans to enter high-growth jobs \u2013 from education to health care<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1697220943456661688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I clearly remember my thought process when figuring out where to move, and why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If a condom breaks, will my future nonexistent girlfriend be able to abort it <em>even up until birth<\/em>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If we have a kid, and get divorced, and that kid decides to transition genders, will I be able to get the custody order ignored?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can I afford the rent&#8230;not <em>now<\/em>, per se, but at some indeterminate point in the future, when a hodgepodge of government programs have some promised effect, whatever it is?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can I get paid leave from the job I neither have nor, honestly, have really figured out what it&#8217;ll be, yet?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will other kids coming after me be &#8220;prepared&#8221; for the jobs I&#8217;m trying to get?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Kudos, Governor Klink.  Nailed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it just me, or was that tweet about coaxing young people to move to Minnesota &#8211; something they&#8217;re not doing &#8211; written by someone who&#8217;s never been a young person thinking about moving to another state? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this tweet from Governor Klink, and it brought me back in time almost (cough cough) years, to when I was trying to decide what to do after college: And I clearly remember my thought process when figuring out where to move, and why: Kudos, Governor Klink. Nailed it. Is it just me, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85905,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85893\/revisions\/85905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}