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Or you know, people could just not live on top of each other in cities and fucking move/demand their companies allow them to live in rural areas. Micro-solutio
by trident5000 6y ago
Or you know, people could just not live on top of each other in cities and fucking move/demand their companies allow them to live in rural areas. Micro-solutions like "eliminating parking minimums" is just a tiny band-aid on a giant gaping wound of an issue. If your company allows you to work remotely and you dont, thats on you and you get the life quality you deserve for being inflexible. Theres a lot of people who live in cities as a choice rather than a necessity because they want the lifestyle. Well you cant afford it, sorry.
- pertymcpert 6y agoCities should be affordable. They offer huge benefits in terms of collaboration, and the increased viability of communal services, and also cultural events. We need to be interacting much more with our fellow people in the US, not less.
- SirZimzim 6y agoAgreed, city life builds a deep level of culture that will never happen with everyone working remote and moving to less populated areas just so that they can own a bigger house. We need to bring back the starving artists, allow people to take risks in cities by removing these inflated financial burdens. The internet as great as it is primarily promotes exceptionalism where we put most of our eggs in one basket and copy paste type work.
- trident5000 6y agolol. I lived in nyc for a decade. Most people dont even know their neighbors.
- Pfhreak 6y agoI absolutely love living in a city. I also suspect that if we were to spread everyone out evenly over the globe we'd have limited wilderness areas (and introduce a number of inefficiencies in commodity exchanges). While the work tech workers do can be remote, it would be much harder to operate, e.g., a restaurant in a highly distributed world than a dense one.