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Yeah but people already miss being stuck in traffic and their daily commute so it's not going to last
by cblconfederate 6y ago
Yeah but people already miss being stuck in traffic and their daily commute so it's not going to last
- kristopolous 6y agoI've heard people actually say this. The horror, the horror.
- renewiltord 6y agoIt's the "I like 4 seasons" of commuting.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoFor a lot of people it was their only alone time.
- davio 6y agoI only listen to podcasts while driving, so my "learning" time has been drastically reduced
- jedberg 6y agoSame here, I'm way behind on podcasts. The only time I listened to them was when I was driving.
- retzkek 6y agoWhy not set aside some time each day to listen? Take a bath, lounge on the couch/hammock, and enjoy that time not commuting.
- jedberg 6y agoI have two young kids. There is no such thing as "lounging". :)
- ishjoh 6y agoI've been WFH for about 5 years now and also have two young ones so I know the feeling :) I've found that any chore time is now also podcast time. So things like cleaning, laundry, or mowing the lawn I've always got one headphone in (the other ear is for listening for the kids)
- jedberg 6y agoYeah when I'm doing yard work my headphones do double duty for listening to podcasts and being earplugs. But that was true even before I stopped driving anywhere.
- retzkek 6y agoPretend I'm naïve (better yet don't pretend): can't you set some boundaries? If you need to get out of the house why not go for a walk? Is it because doing something for/by yourself is seen as selfish (even by yourself), while before the commute was imposed by your job, so you could enjoy that alone time guilt-free?
- jedberg 6y agoIt's really not about boundaries. It's about efficiency. If I'm at home, there's always something I can be doing more "valuable" than podcasts. Working, playing with the kids, helping with chores, etc. When I'm driving, there's nothing I can do otherwise, other than audio. Which means either podcasts or phone calls with family or friends.
- Jtsummers 6y agoI converted my commute time to walking time and yardwork time last spring through fall (too cold for walking now, and yardwork is now 10 minutes of shoveling snow every couple of weeks). I think I listened to more thanks to the lack of a commute. I didn't feel bad about leaving the house at 4:30pm (end of workday for me) and finding my way back home at 5:30pm or 6pm, especially since I knocked out a lot of household chores/tasks during the workday in quick 1-5 minute bursts so I was more helpful around the house than when I was in the office.
- renewiltord 6y agoI used to commute on BART from El Cerrito for an hour. Read so many books on that ride. When I had a 10 min commute, book reading dropped through the floor till I made time again.
- spelunker 6y agoI noticed this problem. I read during my commute (it was by train don't worry), and since I've started working from home my reading time has absolutely tanked.
- kristopolous 6y agoIt really says something. Roads have long served as our public space but we've managed to convert it into the private. I don't mean materially private, I know we're fishbowls on wheels, but culturally private, as in people often refer to it as such. It's one of the only times most people are disconnected from internet/work-tech because there is substantial risk of life and limb if they engaged (I know people have made this work regardless, I'm talking about cultures, not outliers) Also this human need for privacy, if that's the reason to commute, is coming at the cost of literally destroying the planet. There has to be a healthier way to satisfy these baseline psychological needs. Climate collapsing death machines may be how humans have transported themselves for a while but it shouldn't be the main go-to for how they are alone with their thoughts
- ndiscussion 6y agoWhat if we didn't crowd ourselves into cesspools of humanity ie cities? I'm being a bit facetious, but ultimately, this lack of privacy is all self-inflicted.
- kieselguhr_kid 6y agoThen we'd probably destroy our ecosystem more quickly. People in cities much more efficiently than rural or suburban people.
- ndiscussion 6y agoAgreed. It seems with our current "world plan" (infinite growth to prop up the asset class), the only way forward is to push people into smaller and smaller boxes with less and less liberties. Someday we'll be saying that travel is only for the rich - everyone else will be forced to use VR, and they will be brainwashed to like it. As they say, American lifestyles are only sustainable for the 1%. The rest of us should eat bugs and live in pods. As we move into cities, production becomes cheaper - which means we produce more, which means we can support more people, which means we need to increase efficiency even more. I'm not sure that this is preferable to life without technology. Aren't family and small moments the things that make life worth living? Squeezing out a few more years of expected lifespan hardly seems worth the tradeoff to me. Personally, I don't think this is sustainable.
- r00fus 6y agoAre these the same people who didn't spend enough time with their kids/family?
- mark-r 6y agoMy (former) boss uses the time for audio books. If traffic is bad, he doesn't care - it gives him more time with his book.
- dd_roger 6y agoGranted my commute is a 20 minutes walk so I don't get the The True American Commute Experience (TM) but working from home is a miserable experience as far as I'm concerned. Having the possibility to do it once in a while is nice though to make time for appointments or being done earlier to go out after work.
- WhompingWindows 6y agoThis is anecdotal? I don't know anyone who misses traffic and commuting, they miss their office space.
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