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It is obvious that the "suburb-to-downtown commute" lifestyle arrangement of America is not scalable, wasteful and a massive quality of life drain. Yet we're co
by yks 1y ago
It is obvious that the "suburb-to-downtown commute" lifestyle arrangement of America is not scalable, wasteful and a massive quality of life drain. Yet we're committing to it, why? Because the employers don't want to pay more in unemployment insurance and try to lay you off in some roundabout way? This is maddening.
- frollogaston 1y agoIt's not scalable, but it works ok if you don't try to scale it too much. Like don't cram several big tech companies' employees into one city.
- const_cast 1y agoThis is practically unavoidable because of how economies work. People want to live near jobs, and jobs want to be near people. So we get congregations of people (urbanism). It's not like these tech companies actually want to be in a high COL area paying out big fat salaries and paying exorbitant rent on their "campus" nobody cares for. But they want the talent, so they play ball.