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Alcohol.

Lots and lots of people lean heavily on it and think that alcohol is the spice of their life. When, it contributes to so many problems than it's so-called benefits. We tried, in America anyways, to outright ban alcohol. Problem was that the person who wanted it banned, was too extremist.

Like he didn't think it all through and think just going for the jugular of the problem is what will work. When, it didn't and just made people work around it until eventually the ban was dismantled.

So, since then, we've been putting up with drunk drivers, drunk disputes, drunk abusers and other issues. I still wish we could just slam our hands down at the desk and demand we sit to discuss in how to properly deal with this issue than people proclaiming that it's not a problem.

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[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are there EV longhaul trucks that are at cost and performance parity with ICE longhaul trucks on the horizon?

I don't think so.

That means that logistics costs for basically everything gets significantly more expensive when ICE fuel costs go up.

We could lessen this problem by building out more freight rail capacity, and a whole lot more minor rail lines so that trucks don't routinely drive halfway across the continent and are used less often...

...but we are not.

So, that means that when gas/diesel prices go up, everything gets more expensive... including ICE and EV personal vehicles.

Currently, generally, EVs (and Hybrids) are already 20% to 30% more expensive than their ICE counterparts, even after subsidies/rebates, and are only less expensive than the ICE counterpart in a long run of 10+ years due to lower ongoing fuel costs...

But if gas/diesel prices significantly rise and never go back down...

All vehicles become more expensive.

If ICE vehicle ongoing fuel costs are now so high that an average person can't afford them...

The only other choice is EVs ... but those now have a stupendous sticker price.

So you end up with even less people being able to afford any vehicle whatsoever, but a society that is physically designed to... require one.

So then you end up with a society of an upper class of EV owners, and everyone else who used to be able to afford a midrange ICE car now having to use ICE/EV motorcycles or EBikes... for daily commutes, in all weather.

No more AC or Heating for your completely environmentally exposed 30 minute to 2hr commute to work through a heatwave or heavy snow or rain.

They'd have to rent an EV vehicle to do 2 weeks worth of grocery shopping or move any kind of substantial cargo like a bed, or move more than 2 people a considerable distance, start arranging ride shares to and from work in some kind of comfort.

Oh, and a ton of Americans are functionally too obese/unhealthy/injured to be able to actually use a motorcycle or EBike. So just count them out of the workforce if they can't find ride shares I guess.

[โ€“] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

git solves this.

i love me some doom pr0n now and again, but it sounds alot like some people are due for some exercise and they'll be just fine. Things might turn out for the better

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

... git?

Like... git hub, git commit?

???

[โ€“] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! Those who can code and use git can collaborate and work remotely. Lessening the need for long depressing commutes

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Sorry, no.

I mean, you're right that git enables this, and that would obviously be a great choice for many tech workers, but employers in the US despise remote work and will do everything they can to never allow that to be any where near as widespread as it easily could be.

Not sure if you've somehow missed it, but after Covid lockdowns ended, basically every large tech firm in the US started mandating return to office work, and many of them even admitted they did so as a way to functionally lay off employees without actually laying them off.

Even Zoom, the company that maintains the most widely used remote work software... mandated their employees return to office.

There are ultimately 2 real reasons for this, ignore the bs that comes out of the media:

  1. Middle managers and up basically realize that their lifestyle suffers if they don't have the ability to micromanage people in person.

Actually effective management can easily be done remotely by competent managers, competent work can in most cases be done by competent employees remotely, but the managers need to feel that in person social hierarchy dominance, or they get upset.

  1. Commercial real estate.

If we went to a massively more remote work paradigm, a fuckton of offices become pointless.

This crashes the commercial real estate market, offices start going (even more) vacant or converting to residential or mixed use, which would lower housing prices.

Can't have that kind of bubble pop, or else we go through something similar to the 08 crash... in an economic environment that is already very precarious at best, and more realistically is already contracting in basically every metric other than GDP.

... We have a whole bunch of generally normalized social views and approaches to many aspects of how things work, which are all mutually reinforcing, which prevent actual social progress from happening, and the hatred of remote work is one thing that reinforces our car dependent construction of society.

It doesn't matter that the vast majority of people would be better off with more widespread mass transit, it doesn't matter that the vast majority of people would be better off being able to do remote work.

Those things don't make C Suite see line go up next quarter.