Why does he always come to our house when she decides to take off?
A competing company decides to make an up-front investment and build a new factory in a distant land, high in the mountains where residents who choose to live there have less economic opportunity.
The business looks at this new country and decides to move there because, from their standpoint, they can save costs and be more efficient.
Or these jobs can be divorced from economic realities, as the struggling painter or actor decides simply to do what he loves and live off the minimum income afforded by this planet-wide prosperity.
Then someone else decides to send that child, at eighteen, to another land to kill people and to die?