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The two people concerned in the article both study computer science.
I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to being local, but generally-speaking, software development is one of the fields easiest to do remotely.
I'm not saying that companies are always open to that, but it can be made to work.
There are a lot of jobs for which that isn't a realistic option, true enough. You can't be a plumber remotely. But of all the examples that they could have chosen, this seems like an odd one.