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The land on which car storage is built is suitable for housing to be built on it instead.

by _dain_ 3y ago

trimethylpurine 3y ago
There is no shortage of land in the US. Have you ever been here?
- pjc50 3y ago
  There is within commuting radius of the places that pay well, though.
  - trimethylpurine 3y ago
    Learn to code and don't commute. And don't accept offers that force you to. The commute lifestyle is allowed because we allow it.
    - ben_w 3y ago
      If I assume that remote work is as productive as in-office[0], then everyone in this position is now competing with worldwide [1] labour market. Same applies to all office jobs. Even to physical labour, if we have robot telepresence[2]. [0] IDK, might be? [1] Or at least +/- a time zone or three. [2] AI-on-the-edge robotics probably ends those things as human work opportunities.
      - trimethylpurine 3y ago
        You're exactly right. And that's why over 100k developers were recently terminated while foreign labor was hired. But don't feel too bad for them. Many were already immigrants from India and other countries who are simply giving their countrymen a chance to also gain entrance to the American market. The same chance they had to undercut someone else's pay. Capitalism at its finest.
  - trimethylpurine 3y ago
    There's also a question of subjectivity here. Do you want to commute or live in a small expensive dwelling? Those are choices, neither of which have any bearing on connecting parking space with homelessness. Those are simply unrelated facts.
  - CalRobert 3y ago
    All the more reason to convert parking in to housing near jobs.
    - trimethylpurine 3y ago
      That wouldn't solve anything. The housing would simply cost too much to live near and you'd still need a car to leave the residential areas which are not near work areas even in downtown neighborhoods. My commute to work downtown is actually shorter from the suburbs than it was when I lived and worked downtown. Public transit was over an hour to go just 5 miles from the east side to the skyscrapers. Now I'm 30 miles away and my commute is under 40 minutes. You can't just put a blanket on the subject and claim victory. I think someone above mentioned nuance.

The land on which car storage is built is suitable for housing to be built on it instead.

by _dain_ 3y ago

The land on which car storage is built is suitable for housing to be built on it instead.

trimethylpurine 3y ago

There is no shortage of land in the US. Have you ever been here?

pjc50 3y ago
There is within commuting radius of the places that pay well, though.
- trimethylpurine 3y ago
  Learn to code and don't commute. And don't accept offers that force you to. The commute lifestyle is allowed because we allow it.
  - ben_w 3y ago
    If I assume that remote work is as productive as in-office[0], then everyone in this position is now competing with worldwide [1] labour market. Same applies to all office jobs. Even to physical labour, if we have robot telepresence[2]. [0] IDK, might be? [1] Or at least +/- a time zone or three. [2] AI-on-the-edge robotics probably ends those things as human work opportunities.
    - trimethylpurine 3y ago
      You're exactly right. And that's why over 100k developers were recently terminated while foreign labor was hired. But don't feel too bad for them. Many were already immigrants from India and other countries who are simply giving their countrymen a chance to also gain entrance to the American market. The same chance they had to undercut someone else's pay. Capitalism at its finest.
- trimethylpurine 3y ago
  There's also a question of subjectivity here. Do you want to commute or live in a small expensive dwelling? Those are choices, neither of which have any bearing on connecting parking space with homelessness. Those are simply unrelated facts.
- CalRobert 3y ago
  All the more reason to convert parking in to housing near jobs.
  - trimethylpurine 3y ago
    That wouldn't solve anything. The housing would simply cost too much to live near and you'd still need a car to leave the residential areas which are not near work areas even in downtown neighborhoods. My commute to work downtown is actually shorter from the suburbs than it was when I lived and worked downtown. Public transit was over an hour to go just 5 miles from the east side to the skyscrapers. Now I'm 30 miles away and my commute is under 40 minutes. You can't just put a blanket on the subject and claim victory. I think someone above mentioned nuance.