You can’t really expect a man advised by the CEO of the world’s most valuable car company to make a decision in favour of public transport.
And frankly the man would cut his own dick off if he thought it would be of use to the poor.
In any case, the real alternative to cars was staring us in the face all through COVID. How many people wake up every day, jump into 2-3 tons of their own personal metal, drive for an hour, only to sit staring at the same screens they were looking at through Remote Desktop for 18 months, then do the same thing to get home?
You can’t really expect a man advised by the CEO of the world’s most valuable car company to make a decision in favour of public transport.
He literally also had a rail company that he’d been plugging for over a decade.
the real alternative to cars was staring us in the face all through COVID. How many people wake up every day, jump into 2-3 tons of their own personal metal, drive for an hour, only to sit staring at the same screens they were looking at through Remote Desktop for 18 months, then do the same thing to get home?
There’s material benefit to second and third spaces when collaborating on large, long term projects. And suburbanization is as much at the root of the two hour commute as simple office work.
That said, sure. Telecommuting does quickly what infrastructure improvements would need decades to accomplish.
But we can’t have that forever, because fuck us.
Everything has to be in the service of the short term profitablity of landlords.
The alternative would really fuck up your jobs is the thing. Yes commuting sucks and the issue of being forced to commute is a waste of reources, time, and just a show of power.
Until you realize opening that kraken of questions will just lead to worse job disparity. Physical space usually demands physical effort and labor, a basic sense of meeting one another in an AI infested world. You’ll be competing in the same market for jobs, just your boss has a bigger pool and you’re just as small.
Trump admin cuts $60M for bullet train. Can railway from Dallas to Houston still happen?
We literally cannot build trains in this country because we self-sabotage every opportunity.
Houston is getting $4B to redo I-45 but can’t be spared $60M on state mandated planning for an already established rail route.
This isn’t a question of abolishing cars. It’s a question of abolishing trains which we appear dead set on doing.
You can’t really expect a man advised by the CEO of the world’s most valuable car company to make a decision in favour of public transport.
And frankly the man would cut his own dick off if he thought it would be of use to the poor.
In any case, the real alternative to cars was staring us in the face all through COVID. How many people wake up every day, jump into 2-3 tons of their own personal metal, drive for an hour, only to sit staring at the same screens they were looking at through Remote Desktop for 18 months, then do the same thing to get home?
But we can’t have that forever, because fuck us.
He literally also had a rail company that he’d been plugging for over a decade.
There’s material benefit to second and third spaces when collaborating on large, long term projects. And suburbanization is as much at the root of the two hour commute as simple office work.
That said, sure. Telecommuting does quickly what infrastructure improvements would need decades to accomplish.
Everything has to be in the service of the short term profitablity of landlords.
The alternative would really fuck up your jobs is the thing. Yes commuting sucks and the issue of being forced to commute is a waste of reources, time, and just a show of power.
Until you realize opening that kraken of questions will just lead to worse job disparity. Physical space usually demands physical effort and labor, a basic sense of meeting one another in an AI infested world. You’ll be competing in the same market for jobs, just your boss has a bigger pool and you’re just as small.