Re:Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record
by gumballindie on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:42AM
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We also need to reduce the need for transportation. There’s no need for traveling to work for many white-collar jobs, except for propping up highly toxic industries such as commercial real estate, restaurants, oil, and of course car sales and manufacturing.
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Re:Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record
by gottorf on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:55PM
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Maybe we should just reduce the need for white-collar jobs? Since we don't exist in the Metaverse yet, most things that we actually "need" are performed by blue-collar people and almost always involve transporting atoms around.
> propping up highly toxic industries such as commercial real estate, restaurants, oil, and of course car sales and manufacturing
This reminds me of the assertion that inflation is below 2% now, if we exclude food, energy, shelter, and used cars[0]. Life is great, if we don't meet in person to do work, break bread together, and get ourselves around to provide goods and services?
What's left, if you remove the "highly toxic" industries?
[0]: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761