Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules

Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by freeone3000 on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:50PM (#22329104)

Honestly, subsidizing short commmutes is an idea I can get behind, even though I feel all of the gains would be captured by landlords.

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Re:Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be... by eru on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:46AM (#22340968)

You can do this by introducing a carbon tax (that you levy on eg petrol as well) and a road congestion charge.

Distribute the proceeds equally amongst all citizens. And in effect, anyone who commutes less than the average person gets a net positive payment. (Or technically: anyone who uses less carbon or causes less congestion than the average person.. Someone who commutes 100km by bicycle would still get a net payment. That's fine.)

But yes, these you are right, there's a danger that landholders (landlords and owner occupiers) capture the gains, even in my proposed scheme.

You deal with that via a land value tax.

From the point of view of economics, those ideas are orthodoxy. Good luck getting them past any political process anywhere in the world, though.

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