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I've always wondered how modern cities would look if employers had to bear partial responsibility for the commute. Would we see a lot more mixed housing around
by Plasmoid 3y ago
I've always wondered how modern cities would look if employers had to bear partial responsibility for the commute. Would we see a lot more mixed housing around the place? Would transit be much better?
- subarctic 3y agoMy guess is you'd see more company housing and stupid restrictions on where you have to live if you work somewhere
- Terr_ 3y agoIMO that's not really about commute-costs as much as about bargaining-power, labor relations, and competitive markets. Commute costs are kind of like inflation: In the very long term it's balanced by wages... but there's a lot of living that happens at shorter timescales. The longer before the situation is renegotiated, the more time one side has to exploit the imbalance.