Those stories like “car thief steals car without realizing baby in back, returns baby safe” “burglar finds cp stash on computer turns guy in”
And everyone is always so shocked and amazed but like. It really shows how much we’ve tied morality to legality. Legal corporations exploit and harm people every day and we’re all used to is. A petty thief has normal morals and everyone is like shocked.
Amazing fact but … ppl who turn to crime to survive don’t suddenly become feelingless sociopaths and tbh I’d rather hang out with “blue collar criminals” all day than the top brass of any one company wtf because chances are I’ll find better ppl among the car thieves lmao
like there’s a lot of good talk in there about how conspiracy cults operate by suppressing doubt or dissent while making you think YOU’RE the only one enlightened enough to tHiNk cRiTiCaLlY, which i’d never really put together on my own but is COMPLETELY true (not just for q anon but in any group that thrives on groupthink and us-against-them fundamentalist behavior). but also, this took me OUT
not to be reformist but i just realized requiring employers to treat a commute as time on the job would probably make american cities profoundly more habitable
I am having trouble understanding. Can you, or someone else who knows more about this please provide further explanation?
if employers were paying for commute time (as is standard in several countries), spending less time commuting would be incentivized. cities would be more compact and take less time to traverse than across urban sprawl. i also interpreted it to mean that cities would also have more diverse transportation infrastructure, instead of the heavily-trafficked slog of the freeway. efficient public transport, walkability, etc.
not only that, but employers would have an incentive to do things like putting money/support behind lowering housing costs in core areas (or paying wages that enable employees to afford rent in core areas), or moving operations to areas with low-cost housing and putting their money/support behind building infrastructure to support their operations (high-speed internet, etc).
companies (in general) don’t do shit unless they can see a clear benefit to their bottom line. if they had to pay for commutes, suddenly a lot of things they don’t currently care about (or actively fight against because it would involve raising municipal taxes) would become of benefit to them.
