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Yeah let's increase car dependence. Great idea. If people are mainly working from home then we can redirect public transit from business parks or whatever towa
by goosedragons 4y ago
Yeah let's increase car dependence. Great idea.
If people are mainly working from home then we can redirect public transit from business parks or whatever towards places people still want to go (e.g. shopping, nightlife, events) but without a car. Starving already often underfunded public transit is not the answer.
Why not use the hundreds of millions spent on highways to subsidize people to work from home instead? Most commuters in North America are not using public transit but highways.
- foobiekr 4y agoSubsidizing people in affluent, remote-work jobs is not a good allocation of resources. By all means, work from home, but subsidies should mostly help the people in the bottom two thirds of the income ladder.
- throwaway14356 4y agonah, imho tax should go towards quality of life and stability. Working from home might not be good for promotions it will allow hiring competent people who cant [atm] afford living nearby. Dumb short term gigs gives one a chance to show ones performance. I do manual labor but i could/should/might be a software developer. Not sure, im definitely not going to give up what i have to relocate. Give me work/tasks and we will see i havent got what it takes or do and if the pay and stability is there to give up what i have for it. They already cant find people. Reduce it further and salaries will have to change.
- goosedragons 4y agoYou're right but we do already heavily subsidize those kinds of people with things like highways, tax credits for EVs etc.