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Density of jobs is not a problem, it's a fundamental property and network effects are real. The problem is people that want to stop other people from being abl

• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  It’s a fundamental problem caused by the necessity to collocate to collaborate, which is largely not true any more. Jobs will diffuse away from cities as the people who live in the city out of obligation and have no desire leave. Some stay because they like it. Regardless the density will reduce. That’s a good thing. The hollowing out of the country into the coastal cities is a flaw not a feature.
  • thehappypm 4y ago
    Maybe some jobs don’t require colocating, but the majority still do. Any heavy industry, teaching, services, anything involving a lab, medicine.. working from home is not something just anyone can do.
    • fnordpiglet 4y ago
      Have you been to an urban downtown during lockdown where only jobs requiring in person attendance were encouraged to work in the office? They were literally empty. Now with hybrid they’re mostly empty. There wouldn’t be articles we are responding to if this were not true. The majority of jobs in an urban core is not heavy industry or medical or teaching. Those are on the outside of the urban core, especially heavy industry is usually not in an urban environment at all in modern times.
      • thehappypm 4y ago
        Do you have the stats to back that up? In the city of Boston, fully half the jobs are in healthcare and education. Many urban jobs can certainly go remote but I don’t think it’s more than half.