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that’s where the opportunity is, i’ve done a 2-3hr roundtrip commute to santa monica before, have you?
by hnav 4y ago
that’s where the opportunity is, i’ve done a 2-3hr roundtrip commute to santa monica before, have you?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoMaybe it’s time to end commutes then?
- mrguyorama 4y agoHow the heck is the janitor of the facebook campus going to remote work?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThere won’t be a Facebook campus. The janitor will have to find another place to work, sadly.
- hnav 4y agonevertheless, who is doing labor that requires physically being in santa monica?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThe people who do it today, but with the people who don’t have to live there for work gone, their housing will be more affordable. Unless you’re saying there’s no janitors in Santa Monica?
- hnav 4y agoAnd that’s happening, but still your plumber has to come from somewhere. As the need to commute drops the population density that can be accommodated will rise just because there won’t be huge flows of commuter traffic.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoA lot of plumbers make more than a lot of software devs.
- hnav 4y agonot software devs that work in santa monica usually
- fnordpiglet 4y agoMy quick kaging tells me a plumber in Santa Monica makes on average $80k, and the average software dev makes $90. I think you underestimate how much skilled trades actually make. The parallel thread regarding unskilled labor (janitors) is more to the point. Even then, somehow, the building are clean even in places considerably more expensive than Santa Monica. I don’t think the homeless camps are filled with janitors, but I very well could be wrong. I know a lot of recent homeless are people simply priced out of being homed. A solution in my mind lies somewhere between razing every single family home and erecting massive Soviet style block housing across the skyline and disallowing any change to any structure.
- epistasis 4y agoYes let's end commutes by letting people live close to where their labor is needed.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoLike, at home which can be anywhere? Great! Let’s do it.
- Xeronate 4y agoNo because I would never do that. If my choices were work in Santa Monica and drive 2-3 hours a day or live in Ohio, I would live in Ohio.