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RareCodeMonkey t1_j0zx8qf wrote

It is a weird comparison, at least for the European Union and probably for others, as a Norwegian moving to Sweden counts as an immigrant, even that the guy may be moving just a few kilometers. But a Californian moving to Florida is not accounted as migration as that guy stays in the same country. The same happens for other big countries like China or Russia were people travelling thru time zones and cultures ends up in the same country.

So, the map is interesting and correct, but it would add even more information to see kilometers travelled or some other metric that takes distance into account.

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Slow-Substance-6800 t1_j0zx2di wrote

I’ve lived in both Japan and Brazil and this makes me wonder a lot.

It’s true that in recent years there are not so many people that would want to migrate to Brazil but some cities like São Paulo were a hub for immigrants, and a big percentage of my friend’s grandparents were born in different countries, me included. I’m not sure if those old folks are being counted in this because A. It was a long time ago and B. It’s very easy to get a Brazilian citizenship, so they’re all Brazilian by now.

Maybe this map is showing recent migration, or maybe it’s just not considering people that became a National of the country. Idk for sure.

Add that to the fact that a considerable number of refugees moved to Brazil like from Venezuela, Haiti and parts of Africa in recent years. Idk if they have been counted as well.

Now about Japan… if you ever walk around Tokyo and walk around São Paulo, there’s no way you think that Tokyo has more immigrants. Maybe main areas like shibuya and Shinjuku but outside of that it’s all Japanese. Although I know that there are very significant Chinese and Korean communities, idk how are they being counted based on the citizenship law. Some people (idk if the percentage is high enough to even make it but..) have been born in Japan for several generations but refuse to “become Japanese” because Japan doesn’t allow dual citizenship, therefore they would still be foreigners by this metric?

Idk the definition of a migrant, basically.

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vicvinegarboiling t1_j0zvqsd wrote

The corporate side of it would barely be worth showing on this chart. Major airlines have a heavily unionized workforce with over 100k employees. The highest paid employees by far, other than the most senior execs, are pilots. Pilots, especially mainline pilots, get paid very well and have extremely strong unions. I’d say about half of the total salary line goes to pilots. Then the rest will be spread between flight attendants, mechanics, ground crew etc. a small portion will be corporate but it is definitely not the industry to be in if you are looking for large corporate salaries, and given the size of corporate employees compared to the entire org it is a small fraction of the total payroll of the business.

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Turbulent-Mango-2698 t1_j0zp5o9 wrote

I live in Southern CA, but spend time in many cold places like CO, MA, NY, NJ, and Canada. I do a lot of running, walking, biking, and exercise at the gym. I did notice that I get very little exercise minutes for skiing, so I end up getting even more exercise on those days to make the 30 min threshold.

I exported from my Health App a 2.8GB file. Huge!

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pk10534 t1_j0zo8mw wrote

There really just isn’t that much money in the airline industry. It’s just expensive any way you look at it, from landing fees to repainting planes to fuel costs to plane orders…it’s an industry that operates on a very thin margin. Airlines can make more money selling miles and loyalty points to companies like Amex or Hertz than they can flying people in economy. And without first class or business class subsidizing the rest of the plane, prices would skyrocket or most airlines would have to go bankrupt.

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