slothropbeen both sides of that counter
FireRetardantThe entire economy can’t just shut down because of some snow. Realisitically the most dangerous part about that weather is the driving, if we just built public transit, their commute wouldn’t even be that different from a sunny day. If you dress for the weather you’ll be fine.
But why can’t the economy shut down for a few days?
In the past the economy had to shut down because of bad weather regularly, now we have all those machines and produce much more efficiently.
In the past they worked a 6 day work week. They’d only call it off due to weather if they had no infrastructure to handle the current weather.
We could institute not working and shutting things down anytime it snows, it also means your municipality will likely gut their snow clearing budget as they won’t justify clearing the streets unless its going to be used for economic activity. They’ll instead wait for the snow to stop and only run clearing operations then as it would take less passes with the plow compared to constantly clearing and salting/sanding.
Seth TaylorThe economy is tired. It needs to shut down sometimes. :(
Have you hugged your economy today? ;_;