You could just use tinder like everyone else.

Isn't that for hook-ups? I want a real relationship.

mortgage + utilities + insurance for a 20k+ sq foot building in california

Its worse with taxes and commuting costs. Id pay 300/mo as an example just for trains and the opportunity to miss 3-4 hours of my day in exchange for half of whatever increase is offered.

This post was edited by duffman316 on Apr 28 2023 04:10pm

Well if you spend 3-4 hours riding trains every day that means you live way too far from your work. I mean it's understandable people want a pay increase with rising living costs I don't blame them but the business owner is hurting too. If the business closes down because the wages get too expensive then those people would be out of work and then no one wins.

The main problem stems to inflation and stupid government borrowing further putting everyone into debt. Things like wars and lock downs cost us billions if not trillions hope it was worth it. Enjoy the the consequences.

It would also help with the issue of exploding housing prices in the cities, as well as the issue of declining money to go around in exurban or rural communities, if more people worked from home and thus could take up residence further away from their employer. Dito for carbon emissions and fuel demand.

In fact, a myriad of our current social and political problems would all be solved if people spread out more across the country and we no longer tried to cram everything into a select few cities.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Apr 30 2023 10:46pm

it would help some issues, but i think a more sedentary life would lead to far more obese people, more depression, and a lot of porn addiction.

It also creates a myriad of other issues though. As a person who's lived rural their entier life except university, it's a great way of life but it's not feisable for a spread out country like Canada to be able to maintain all that rural infrastructure. It can't now. Horrible roads, almost constant boil water advisories, no public transport what so ever. No hospital facilities.

Half the time I have no water. I have to chissle ice from lakes. I don't get to do laundry for a week plus sometimes or shower and I'm in Canada.

We don't have basic human rights for rural areas as is now. Vertical infrastructure is by far the most efficient when you have no capability to service a sprawling population.

This post was edited by SBD on May 1 2023 08:07am

How exactly would more distance working lead to a more sedentary life? Nowadays, you have people sitting on their ass in the office for 8+ hours, plus 1-2 hours of sitting on their ass in their car during commute. With more work from home, they would still sit 8 hours in front of a computer screen, but they could at least cut on the shitty commute and spend the additional free time working in their garden or going outside to play with their kids or something like that.



Fair point, a place like Canada might be too underpopulated. Still, even if you kept the bulk of the country's population and infrastructure confined to the Windsor-Quebec corridor, you could still spread it out better within this corridor. (While leaving the actual wilderness uninhabitated.)

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 1 2023 10:48am

I was fully remote since COVID. I got fired for advocating for permanent remote as COVID concern started to dwindle.

I work 1 day in office now, but only because I sought out a lateral hire for a 40% pay raise.

In office only exists for $$ reasons and my local government is in the pocket of developers so they're advocates for it.

This post was edited by 18nomaUSEast on May 1 2023 10:51am