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And 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
by hnav 4y ago
And 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.