"One of the issues with this is that while yes, you can get the people to become more skilled/educated, ultimately the jobs that take advantage of that skills and education are in cities, not in small towns or rural areas where so many of these people currently live."
Somehow, our companies have become experts at enabling remote working 12 time zones away, but can't manage to pull off the same thing for someone in the rural US.
> Somehow, our companies have become experts at enabling remote working 12 time zones away
Debatable. Most companies don't really have that many individual remote workers. Yes, they may have geographically distinct offices, but that's different.
Somehow, our companies have become experts at enabling remote working 12 time zones away, but can't manage to pull off the same thing for someone in the rural US.
I wonder why?