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I have a gripe with long commuters... Or I think they're kinda dumb. I don't think the government should get involved, but it's not a social taboo to have a lo
by danschumann 7y ago
I have a gripe with long commuters... Or I think they're kinda dumb. I don't think the government should get involved, but it's not a social taboo to have a long commute, it's almost celebrated and romanticized.
France has shown gas taxes have bad side effects, but how about just make people feel stupid for driving too much habitually.
I just think they're stupid for spending a higher percentage of their lives in traffic, which is hellish.
- gaukes 7y agoNot everyone has the choice, especially in a place like the Bay Area with incredibly high rents near job centers.
- jdnenej 7y agoLiterally anyone who lives in the bay area has a choice to live somewhere else or work remote.
- neixidbeksoxyd 7y agoAh yes, how dare poor people exist. They must clearly be inferior and stupid for choosing to live somewhere they can afford.
- danschumann 7y agoPoor people? I'm poor. But I integrate my life. My work meshes with my home life. I would move my house or get a new job. Fighting traffic creates rage and environmental problems. It's stupid.
- senordevnyc 7y agoWow. Do you seriously imagine that people who spend a huge portion of their life on a miserable commute have never considered the solutions of "move somewhere closer" or "get a new job closer to home"?
- danschumann 7y agoThat makes it better? I'm sure Bernie Madoff thought about quitting his pyramid scheme. Everyone thinks about quitting smoking. It doesn't matter unless you actually do it. If you just think about it, you still get lung cancer.
- senordevnyc 7y agoWow, you just keep digging deeper. Let me spell it out for you: Most people make those choices because they don’t have better ones available. They would love to live closer to work, but it’s not viable for many reasons. I’m sure you consider them invalid or of less importance than whatever you prioritize in your life, but suggesting that the solution to other people’s problems is just to do something they can’t easily do is quite arrogant and out of touch.
- danschumann 7y agoIt's either their destiny in a sadistic universe, or it's their own unresourcefulness in making bad decisions. Making bad decisions over and over is a definition of stupidity. If you continue to ignore obvious operations of the universe, you, yourself might fall into the stupid category, but at least you can give yourself prestige, thinking you're fight for someone, when really you are holding them back, like a consumptive mother, chaining her babies down, lest they fledge. And your offense seems rooted in my calling out stupidity, as if the word does not deserve to exist, itself. It does exist, and you can't take away my right to describe what I see, you nincompoop.
- danschumann 7y agoOh yea, and if you don't think it's stupid, then I guess you are against what Elon Musk is doing. Because why would you want to avoid traffic, if traffic wasn't stupid? Idiot.
- danschumann 7y agoLook man everyone has choices. You're the one making excuses. I think it's stupid to sit in a car all day. If someone can't think of more options, isn't that a definition of being stupid?
- moultano 7y agoI don't know where you're from, but the law nearly every city in the US limits how many housing units can be built in every tract of land, so the simple arithmetic forces long commutes.
- Avalaxy 7y agoVery short-sighted comment. I commute 3 hours per day in total, but I take the train which is driving for 100% on green electricity.
- danschumann 7y agoI mean specifically car commuters. People who spend hours fighting traffic. At least you can be on your computer during commute. Still not ideal.
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoI would much prefer it be a social taboo for employers not to offer telecommuting where possible. Perhaps a new tax could make a positive difference there.