Dan LykeStop asking how the poor are going to get to work without cars, and start asking why the rich won't let the poor live close to their jobs.
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@danlyke Or even why the rich won't let the poor work from home, FFS! We have had VPN for at least 23 years now. It's been time tested
@ablackcatstail yep, although as other folks have pointed out in this thread, the kinds of jobs that are work from home tend to be pretty middle-class.
In my area, much of the push for more lanes seems to be to allow service workers (retai) and manual labor (construction, poultry processing) to commute in from further away.
The fact that we mandate that all of those workers can afford cars is pretty awful and is a deliberate barrier creation.
@danlyke I have a job where I could do it basically working from home and live paycheck to paycheck. Still you're quite correct.
@ablackcatstail yeah. globally, owning a car puts you in about the top 10%. Doesn't make it feel any less paycheck-to-paycheck though, especially since in the US we've created a world where it's very hard to participate in society without owning a car.
@danlyke Life in the US is difficult enough and honestly made that much more so by needing a car. 😿
@ablackcatstail yep. We're a developing nation with an automobile fixation and a severe housing undersupply problem.
@danlyke The thing is we always were a developing a nation. Many of us just bought into the propaganda that we were sold by the rich. I feel it's really hopeless.
@ablackcatstail Yep. And I'm still resentful of the upbringing and education that sent me through a big ol' Ayn Rand phase back in my 20s.
These days I'm getting into local politics, though as my friend who was recently elected Mayor observed, if we're asking people to choose between staying up late for city meetings and going to their kids' evening activities, we're still doing it wrong.
@danlyke That's quite possibly true. I actually went through a similar phase. It took me becoming disabled to realize just how wrong I really was.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@ablackcatstail @danlyke It took me reading the increasingly embarrassing Ayn Rand wizarding fanfiction to start moving out of it.
@clacke my turning moment started when I read her Letters articles about patents, and in support of the space program. Those two bits of writing weren't consistent with her epistemology and started the "aha". Of course as I learned more economics and gained more work experience the rest of it came crashing down.