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Noise pollution is yet another tax disproportionately shouldered by the poor.

by theteapot 1y ago

HenryBemis 1y ago
Yes! I was "stuck" (someone dropped me off and someone else was supposed to pick me up, but they were late so..) on a highway/motorway in <country> (edit: I wrote it and then deleted it for privacy) some weeks back. The weather was great! Sun was shining, a cool 24 degrees, I was wearing my hoodie, it was windy. I got bored on waiting by the highway/motorway. No village/coffee place anywhere near, so I decided to take a vertical small road and walk by a green field. And it was windy. And I could see the bushes and leaves from the trees swinging back and forth. And it was windy and very calming (to my soul) so I stood there gazing at the wonderful nature. And I was thinking, why the fuck do we live in cement boxes in cities? I could buy "a few sqm, build something with glass/brick/steel, no deep foundations, and smaller 25sqm "hut" as my office right next to the "house" and live next to a field and have a great life... Anyway, my friend arrived, picked me up and we continued driving. I was thinking that the cost of remote land/house/'office' would be 50% on the cost of a 100sqm flat in (most), with the pro of the calmness and the con of being alone in the middle of nowhere. But there is always the option...
strogonoff 1y ago
It makes intuitive sense and maybe is true in many places (I’m not in the US, for example), but some of the quietest flats I happened to have seen were in subsidized government housing or cost almost half of my rent. I simply did not luck out with one of those. If you are in top N% then yes, you probably just do not have to worry about noise. However, at this point we are just arguing about the definition of “the poor”. If you mean anyone who lacks cash to forfeit the tenancy agreement like it was nothing, then yes.

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Noise pollution is yet another tax disproportionately shouldered by the poor.

by theteapot 1y ago

Noise pollution is yet another tax disproportionately shouldered by the poor.

HenryBemis 1y ago
Yes! I was "stuck" (someone dropped me off and someone else was supposed to pick me up, but they were late so..) on a highway/motorway in <country> (edit: I wrote it and then deleted it for privacy) some weeks back. The weather was great! Sun was shining, a cool 24 degrees, I was wearing my hoodie, it was windy. I got bored on waiting by the highway/motorway. No village/coffee place anywhere near, so I decided to take a vertical small road and walk by a green field. And it was windy. And I could see the bushes and leaves from the trees swinging back and forth. And it was windy and very calming (to my soul) so I stood there gazing at the wonderful nature. And I was thinking, why the fuck do we live in cement boxes in cities? I could buy "a few sqm, build something with glass/brick/steel, no deep foundations, and smaller 25sqm "hut" as my office right next to the "house" and live next to a field and have a great life... Anyway, my friend arrived, picked me up and we continued driving. I was thinking that the cost of remote land/house/'office' would be 50% on the cost of a 100sqm flat in (most), with the pro of the calmness and the con of being alone in the middle of nowhere. But there is always the option...
strogonoff 1y ago
It makes intuitive sense and maybe is true in many places (I’m not in the US, for example), but some of the quietest flats I happened to have seen were in subsidized government housing or cost almost half of my rent. I simply did not luck out with one of those. If you are in top N% then yes, you probably just do not have to worry about noise. However, at this point we are just arguing about the definition of “the poor”. If you mean anyone who lacks cash to forfeit the tenancy agreement like it was nothing, then yes.