A housing shortage forces people to put all their disposable income into financing the purchase of an existing house, instead of using that money to boost their standard of living and maintaining or improving that house.
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@rodhilton WFH benefits the worker as they can avoid the commute and can do personal errands as a break. RTO benefits the employer as it forces workers to 'network' with colleagues as a break, makes it harder to descretely look for your next job.
Nature does not judge your personality; sinner or saint, introvert or extrovert, happy or sad - A tree will treat you the same.
@davidho Effectively, the companies get credits for the renewable/nuclear power portion of the grid, so remaining fossil fuel portion is blamed on household use.
@robpike analog phones had low latency so you could converse with people. The encoding decoding lag of digital makes conversation unnaturally stop and start. So text has become dominant.
@vicgrinberg better to find the mistake before publication than after. And could rewrite the results as a teaching guide so others don't make the same mistake.
@tess Humans are also biased and flawed when making decisions, but also have self interest. Hence the scenarios you describe already happen. Deferring the decisions to a computer removes the guilt for the decision maker, so will happen more frequently.
@randahl a politician taking climate change seriously and going to force airlines to develop electric planes.
People will think someone else will fix it, yet they don't want to pay taxes to pay for someone to fix it, so society slowly declines. From picking up a piece of litter, reporting a crime or leaky pipe, returning a shopping cart, volunteer for a community group, etc. These little things can make real improvements in your neighbourhood.
@backupbear like sports people, tech workers are paid big salaries as many careers will be cut short by burnout (injury). This gives them the luxury of being able to switch jobs or take a break.
Burnout is a bigger issue among low paid jobs where they need to constantly do overtime just to pay bills.