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Re:Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caus... by lm28469 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:37PM (#47355253)
It's bad for the EcOnOmY, less wear and tear in cars, less jobs for mechanics, less gas consumed, less lunch bought in fast food chain, &c.

The entire system is designed around making the numbers go up, not down

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Re:Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caus... by supertrope on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:27PM (#47356581)
In the end cars are just a means to an end. People want to minimize their transportation spending.

People bought bigger houses or renovated. They upgraded their PCs and were more likely to subscribe to broadband and less likely to cancel. Empty office buildings are ever so slowly being converted to housing. Professional clothing purchases dipped and then rebounded.

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Re:Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caus... by Schmerika on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:56AM (#47362063)
Yep. The broken window fallacy and the tragedy of the commons*, darkening the future of basically every vertebrate on the planet.

* A solved problem, btw.

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