@Sandra Would be so easy to put pressure on companies to allow working from home as default again (maybe by subsidizing the cost of the unused office space), and put more cash into public transportation.

@Mabande

Yeah, great ideas. Low-hanging fruit can go a long way. It's not like the 1970s was an easy time and the same goes for the worst years of pandemic (isolation drove me pretty crazy and I'm still not back to good) but actively subsidizing and promoting fossils seems like so clearly the wrong way to go. "Hi this commodity [which incidentally destroys the world] suddenly dramatically decreased in supply so let's subsidize it so people can keep on overconsuming it". Politians don't remember even high school economics these days 😭

With rationing we could get at private jets and the disproportionate impact of the mega rich and that way alleviate the impact on the working class. But nope. That's not the proposal on the table. Instead they're cutting taxes on fuel which disproportionately benefits the richest. Stealing from the public coffers and giving to the richest as per ushe in our neolib helltopia.