Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it

Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by adrianN on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:34AM (#13666817)

That's all fine and dandy as long as you don't have a butt-in-chair job. I live in a city because I don't want to spend 20% of my waking life stuck in traffic. Once we figured all the post-scarcity stuff out, we might live like the Solarians, but for now it's just not practical.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by pif on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:47AM (#13666869)

> I live in a city because I don't want to spend 20% of my waking life stuck in traffic.

That's an effect of too many businesses being concentrated in city centre, too. Disperse jobs as well as people, and life will be better.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by lazaroclapp on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:04AM (#13666933)

Businesses are concentrated in city centers because that's where the people (i.e. potential employees) are. Even better, there is a robust market for both employees and employers, meaning people are not stuck in an area where only one company exists and everyone living in a 20 miles radius is not either a coworker or someone working a service industry job that gets half of its revenue from people working at your one available office employer. I don't think it would do much for ones quality of life to have to move every time one changes jobs.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by pif on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:20AM (#13666993)

You presented an extreme vision. I was talking about spreading businesses around in suburbs, just like malls.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by CalRobert on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:42AM (#13667089)

Sprawling cities welcome you with their better quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles See also: Atlanta, Houston.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by pif on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:20AM (#13668758)

I don't know enough of those cities to understand whether you meant to be sarcastic. Please, add some context.

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by CalRobert on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:06AM (#13669200)

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Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it by nnq on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:26AM (#13667483)

I have a "butt-in-chair" job, but it's more like "butt in any chair, anywhere one Earth, as long as I can get to a few in-person meetings every week"... yeah, I need to get my privileges checked, I know.

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