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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They should make this a literal law for car commutes. Waste of gas, waste of human sanity, and a bane of CO2 emissions.

I would almost go so far as to call commuting further a mark of a class traitor, but also, to make it worth it, you should be making enough to put you in the top 10% of earners anyways ... I guess I'll specify, you should be netting that much after gas and taxes, and if not, let me ask you: Why, just why do that to yourself?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe that would work in sane countries, but in the USA people lost their shit when someone merely suggested cities should be walkable.

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  • Some people lost their shit, and the media made them out to be the majority. Individual states and counties still have more power and influence than you might think.

    Not that I'm not eyeing my escape routes to a saner country anyways.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I assume because they can't find work closer to them, and can't afford to move / have something holding them where they are at that time. No one's doing it because they want too

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're talking what's available to employees. I'm talking hiring choices. I'm not suggesting penalizing employees for commuting, although enough working people identify with this non-sense that its not out of the question either. My stance is no more extreme than the absurdity of what I'm against.

    Employers should be more about helping with moving expenses if they can't find the talent they want close enough, and if the talent doesn't want to or can't afford to live close-by, look at increasing pay or even moving their operations. Instead of demanding people come off work-from-home to drive who-knows-how-far-away, the rules should say they can't do that. Maybe they could open satellite offices if its worth even half the non-sense they spew.

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