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on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsSometimes you hear people say those things, but they're not what I'm arguing, they're not my opinion, and they're nearly the opposite of what I've said here whenever this topic comes up. So, again, I want growth. I want density. I am cool with change and actually want it to happen faster. And I see no reason why they shouldn't or wouldn't be building yuppie condos, since there's a demand for them. Gosh, I even like change in my own backyard. I mean, surely, there's some other low-income creative type who actually holds those opinions that you could go argue with, yes? Or even start your own thread to vent about them.
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on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsPre covid, I know many people who, not wanting to drive to the new consolidated office space, elected to work at the server farm for half the drive to the considered office space. Less nice but half the commute time
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsA luxury condo in 1991 is likely to not be a luxury condo in the current year. The best time to build a luxury condo is 30 years ago. The second best time is now.
on The Politics of Survival: Putting Yourself in a BoxRe: CEO Pay – Is that accounting for total C suite compensation, or just CEO salary? I got those numbers from the AFL-CIO so I'm hoping that's compensation but I don't actually know. Average pay for the board of directories is $25k. That's too many zeros away for it to matter. We could bring in the VPs and so on but they don't get paid as the President and there aren't 100 officers. Even getting 10x seems hard and that's no where close to where we need. I could be off by 100x and it still wouldn't be enough to explain what we're seeing. Normally when someone is trying to prove this is what is happening they use Wealth (vs Income) as the big distorting factor to prove these numbers match up. If we don't do that (we shouldn't), then I think it's trying to use a very small thing to explain a very large thing. Clearly something is going on. I think we don't have a good understanding on what. It might be something as basic as not measuring productivity increases correctly in the context of computers.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsWe've been told that post-COVID, we are all going to hybrid schedules, where folks only go in 2-3 days a week, and work from home otherwise. Here's my prediction: Companies will scale back on pricey office space in urban cores, but you'll start seeing suburban and maybe even rural co-working space expand. There is a building near where we live (like, a mile or two away) that is all small office space. The building has a huge internet connection, and it rents out individual offices (think 15'x15' or larger). You can get it furnished, or bring in your own. My wife and I are thinking about getting a space like that so we have a place that gets us out of the house. I wouldn't be surprised to see companies paying for such spaces for employees, especially if they have 2 or 3 employees near such an office that can share the space. That's less space needed at the downtown office, plus you get a satellite office in the suburbs, so customers don't have to come downtown for little things.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsThe thing about telecommuting that often gets missed is that it takes the offshoring model to the white collar professions. If the pool of people with my skills is limited to Los Angeles, that's one thing; If the pool of labor is expanded to the United States, or the English-speaking world, then my ability to negotiate compensation is limited to the lowest bidder. As ever, capital has the upper hand on labor.
on Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning with Better Toolsisaac is so good, but yes twinsticks are a must. i've put in far too many hours. looking forward to the update dropping at the end of march.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsHousing is probably one of the toughest decisions out here even for people with the money to have some flexibility. For a good school district you're picking between hyper inflated real estate prices for something (and that something might be a collapsing shack) with 'proximity' to the jobs and something more reasonable that has you spending 1-2 hours commuting each way. I put 'proximity' in quotes because even 3 or 4 miles can take an eternity in pre-covid gridlock. Your other options are be a DINK/rich single person or live somewhere with bad schools and serious crime and poverty problems. The 'haves' in our current situation are entrenched and have a serious interest in preventing any change that would hurt their investment in the right zip code. The 'have nots' tend to have enough conflicting interests that I'm not sure they could build a coalition even at the state level. The only way I see it changing is a critical mass of people in a county or municipality on the wrong side of the equation getting enough votes for the haves to agree to redistricting and rezoning plans that are implemented over a slow enough period of time that no one loses their shirt on a 400k house they bought for 800k.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsPerhaps but I am also never surprised by the power of people stuck in their ways and used to doing things the old way to force their way back into things.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsI share your scepticism, though for slightly different reasons. As research into the causes of innovation develops, it appears that one of the things that drives innovation is people meeting each other, often spontaneously. I don't think this is a function of cities that teleworking can supplant.
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsSure, I mean building your way out of a housing crisis is slow and developers will build the high-end housing first (because that’s the most profitable housing they can build). Whereas with housing building restrictions they just build the high-end housing only (along with whatever minimum amount of other housing they have to build to build the stuff they want). I don’t know what the deal is with your specific market. It’s Hamilton Ontario isn’t it? Looking at their zoning project websites it looks like they loosened the zoning but didn’t exactly say “build anything anywhere”. Then again, I’m far from a zoning expert and I wouldn’t dream of asserting you’re wrong and it certainly bears noting that your housing issues are knock on effects being caused by even worse NIMBY douchebaggery going on in Toronto to the east of you. Now, under Covid, we got a chance to test the “it’s what you build, not how much you build” theory that anti-density advocates push and it fell flat on its face. When demand plunged in both California and in New York due to Covid the restrictionism theory says that the prices should have been only minimally affected since the makeup of the constructed housing units didn’t change. Big nope on that one- housing prices and rental rates stalled and plunged despite the amount of luxury housing being built staying the same. Personally, I’m no libertarian- I’m all for the other options (short of the imbecilic rent control schemes; keep it simple-just spend twenty…
on Telework Will Change Our Cities, and (Maybe) Our PoliticsI've seen two predictions about how increased tele-commuting and the potential big population shift that will come from it. Brandon made the prediction from the Right, that a de-concentration of people would move more people politically to the Right because nearly all liberal-left politics comes from living in dense urban environments and once you move people to places with a lower cost of living, their politics will shift to the right. The argument from the Left is that the current growth in liberal-left politics is because most people desire moral autonomy and increased education/changes in how people work. Therefore moving a lot of liberal people from the coasts into the interior will make those areas more liberal because of a big influx in Democratic voters. I tend to believe that this view is more accurate but neither is entirely accurate. I agree that increased tele-commuting is going to lead to more sprawl and pollution because people will be living where land is a lot cheaper, so they can spread out more. There needs to be changes in zoning, to encourage interior cities to develop in a more urban pattern and to discourage driving.
on Transgender Military Ban Lifted: Read President Biden’s Executive Order For YourselfDiscouraging to read some...pretty nasty stuff...from friends of mine who are former service members.
on Rebuilding from AshesDepends on thee agency, the provision, and how the statute dealt with standing. For instance - you as an American Citizen have statutory authority to sue any federal agency for its action (or lack there of) under the Endangered Species Act because the ESA grants anyone standing. You as an American citizen CANNOT sue any federal agency for decision under the National Environmental Policy Act, as NEPA grants no one standing. But if you can show "traditional" legal standing, you can sue for NEPA decisions via the Administrative Procedures Act where your claim has to allege arbitrary and capricious decision making. All of that presupposes that the agency hasn't been declared sovereignly immune, which is a gift Congress gives some agencies in some statutes.
