Right, rampant construction routinely blocks traffic as in one of those personal transports that can’t be easily replaced by a form of mass transit.
The logistics are the same. What you do when you get to work doesn’t matter.
I’m kind of getting that you’re saying blue-collar workers support white collar workers, but it’s not coming out very well, and I’m not sure what it has to do with how people get to work. You can ride the bus in coveralls as easily as you can a suit. Besides, often the coveralls get left at work or brought home in a bag.
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I get that I’m too deep into the weeds in the conversation, and it’s not helping anything. Because that’s not what I’m saying, and to explain what I am saying would require explaining in detail how worksites are built and how they function day to day.
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The blockchain will separate the sucker from their money.
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Self-driving in the simulator…
I remember talking about this with my friends back in high school, probably while we were waiting for the rare sight of one of our suburban buses to take us from the mall to home. Urban planners should consult more teenagers – they know about travelling the burbs without access to a car, and they’re tomorrow’s voters:
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Anecdotes aren’t evidence but they often provide perspective for future study. And perspective to wedge ourselves out of received ideas about people’s practical problems.
9:30 a.m.: I’ll begrudgingly spend $20-$30 on gas every 2-3 days because everybody is allergic to the abhorrent inconvenience that is traveling to the south side. So, because of segregation in Chicago and black people not always being able to choose where to live, I travel to various jobs, meetings, and auditions 30 to 60 min north of where I live.
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Not everyone, not entirely, but a lot of people potentially could. We have the technology and historical precedent. I’m thinking of historic downtowns, even in small cities, that often have apartments above the businesses. That wouldn’t work for giant factories (without the dorms you mentioned), but with >80% of the workforce in service sector jobs, it would make a huge difference if most of them could easily walk to work (and other places they needed) instead of spending 1-2 hours a day commuting. Might not work for hospitals and some other large employers, but it could work for a lot of people if the businesses weren’t all out in some strip mall entirely across town from residential housing and if residential areas weren’t often zoned to 2 people per acre and to keep commerce out of walking distance.
To an alien, it might appear as though for 70 years or so we intentionally designed our cities to cause as much expense, traffic congestion, time wasted, and loss of life (in traffic accidents) as possible. Sure there’s good reasons for some of it, keeping the lead-painted asbestos factory away from the playground, but not so good for a lot of it. A grocery store’s not a big danger, why would you rather the nearest one be a 2 hour walk when you could have one two blocks away?
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Fine people, the finest… etc.
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A classic.
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Meh. Privatized Colonialism can handle everything, even the glad-handing.
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Satire, of course, but the owners of our technology are failing because they don’t have any idea of the demand for real quality.
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Don’t overstep…
Wait, who shouldn’t overstep? The idiot abroad or the servant?
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Can a britisher explain this article? The tone, the fictionalised (no zed, see) passive language, etc?
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A PR slogan one word too long to be entirely true.
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This is part of the reason I have no desire to be rich.
I worked one summer at the yacht club on Figure 8 Island. Typically these multi-million dollar summer homes are empty most of the year, which means maids and landscapers are needed to keep them maintained in their owners’ absence. Then there will be a personal assistant who comes in ahead of the owner and opens the home up, stocks the fridge with approach wine, cheese, food, etc. Then when the owners come there is a lot of shopping to bring in new furniture, tvs, toys for their yachts (smaller boats, waterskis, skidoos, etc.) and such. There is a lot of shopping in general for recreation - purchasing artwork for the walls, for example.
None of this appeals to me. Putting the time and energy into maintaining a staff, spending my vacation outdoing my neighbor’s conspicuous consumption, paying money for a home I barely use.
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Well, there’s being rich and then there’s acting rich. I would like to be rich, in that I would like to no longer be a wage slave or have to worry about the mortgage. I would like to comfortably take care of all my bills, and dedicate myself to all the unpaid creative work I do after hours.
I would not, overall, like to act rich. It sounds exhausting and boring at the same time.
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I wouldn’t mind being rich in the way my grandparents were, which was load of money in the bank, lots of security, knowing at the end of their life they could stay in their home with private nurses to care for them, and living comfortably. They were very depression-era people who did not spend much and that made them happy. Me, myself, I’d have a little nicer home but theirs suited them and was on a fancy street (across from the mayor’s house), so they were happy.
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