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But also those people would still exist and have other jobs to commute to instead.
by gdulli 5y ago
But also those people would still exist and have other jobs to commute to instead.
- Scoundreller 5y agoBut we could give everyone 55000 full-time equivalents of leisure time back in saved resource spending/wastage. It’s a drip for everyone but there are many more drips available where that came from.
- dTal 5y agoAnd with a bit of luck, those other jobs would contribute to society in other ways. The question the parent was trying to answer was whether having those people drive to their TSA jobs was a net good, measured in terms of "lives saved" which is the TSA's own metric of success - in other words, does it "pull its own weight", given the sunk cost of the commute?