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Walk 100km to work and back each day to actually get paid and see how that efficiency works out for you. It's like everyone lives in inner cities but are just
by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Walk 100km to work and back each day to actually get paid and see how that efficiency works out for you. It's like everyone lives in inner cities but are just busy being lazy.
- avianlyric 3y agoWhy does everyone have to live 100km from work? Why would we want to force everyone to live a 100km from their work, why not let people live close to their work and make that pleasant and comfortable? There are more ways to live that in single family homes in suburbs miles from everything you need to live (like work, food and entertainment). Why not live near all stuff you need for life? Wouldn’t that be much cheaper, more efficient, easier and generally just nicer?
- agentgumshoe 3y agoBecause corporations and worksites centralise to where transit and distribution is most efficient. Plus, real estate costs aren't exactly flat everywhere.
- avianlyric 3y agoYou know that in many parts of the world, living near your work and your shops is normal right? Only in the U.S. is such an arrangement unusual, and where living miles from everything is normal. The U.S. is like this by choice, US zoning laws make any other way of living practically illegal. The U.S. could choose to do something different, or at least give people the freedom to try something different. It is meant to be the land of the free, and the free market after all.
- agentgumshoe 3y agoAnd in many parts of the world it's not. I think our increased mobility in recent times has also added distance to everything, but that's not the point I'm making above.