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We also need to reduce the need for transportation. There’s no need for traveling to work for many white-collar jobs, except for propping up highly toxic indust
by gumballindie 3y ago
We also need to reduce the need for transportation. There’s no need for traveling to work for many white-collar jobs, except for propping up highly toxic industries such as commercial real estate, restaurants, oil, and of course car sales and manufacturing.
- gottorf 3y agoMaybe we should just reduce the need for white-collar jobs? Since we don't exist in the Metaverse yet, most things that we actually "need" are performed by blue-collar people and almost always involve transporting atoms around. > propping up highly toxic industries such as commercial real estate, restaurants, oil, and of course car sales and manufacturing This reminds me of the assertion that inflation is below 2% now, if we exclude food, energy, shelter, and used cars[0]. Life is great, if we don't meet in person to do work, break bread together, and get ourselves around to provide goods and services? What's left, if you remove the "highly toxic" industries? [0]: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761 https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761