[ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

[William Flynn Wallace]

If a boss does not know how long a job should take a person working from
home, then they need to be retrained or fired.  bill w

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 12:36 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Since the start of the quarantine, I have been pondering the fact that we
>> have built up cities with a population density high enough to make street
>> traffic mostly impractical, social distancing nearly impossible and causing
>> the proletariat to rely on mass transit, which we already know is
>> inherently dangerous.
>>
>>
>>
>> For safety reasons, that level of population density must come down.  We
>> don’t know how exactly.
>>
>
> Contrasting that is the fact that certain services - including ones we
> have come to depend on, such as schools and hospitals - are only practical
> with certain minimum population densities, and become more efficient -
> better able to serve more people on the same budget - with higher
> population densities.
>
> Pandemics like this, and other such density-magnified traumas - are a tiny
> minority of our time.  This might seem ludicrous right now, while we are in
> the middle of this pandemic, but take an honest look back at the past 100
> or 200 years, considering how much of the time we are not thus afflicted,
> and you will see that it is true.
>
> Further, solutions to density-magnified traumas can be developed.  We
> collectively dropped the ball on this one.  Famously, Bill Gates saw it
> coming and tried to develop solutions - but even his resources were not
> enough on their own.  But let's say that this coronavirus is largely beat
> by this time next year, and a repeat will come in 10 years.  Do you think
> that we will be as unprepared then as we were when this one struck?  Do you
> think that our response next time will be as severe, or any less effective
> for being less severe but better directed?
>
> Likewise, every single danger of mass transit can be mitigated - if
> resources are put toward mitigating them, which resources can be either
> freed up by or generated from the increased population density.  (Although,
> ironically, one of the mitigations is to douse the BS that all jobs must be
> done on site, that most workers can not be trusted to work from home.
> There are some jobs that must be done in person, but there was already a
> wide recognition that many jobs done in the office could have been done
> from home if only bosses would allow it.  Well, today many bosses are
> forced to allow it, and inertia may make that an industry standard,
> lowering the fraction of the workforce that needs mass or private transit
> to and from an office.)
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