Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "NYC might be getting more expensive in a post COVID world" video.

@psychodadandjfit3974 Not exactly... this is more complicated than you think. Thanks to new policies due to environmental impact (which policies are actually neceseary is a different debate), even the lowest cleaners essentially need master's degree in chemistry, to work safely with their cleaning supplies. Also, there is machinery on the horizon. For instance I read about a farm that uses very smartly designed cow sheds. Cows are tended to by a number of specialised robots, that even provide some individualised care! They clean stalls, distribute feed, milk the cows, check milk, if it's OK, and transport it for further processing, even masage the cows. Work around those animals could have been taught in weeks to months. Given the ammount of work and number of specialisations, you would need at very least nine to tweleve people to run this cow shed traditionally. With these machines (total of five), you need three. A mechanic, a vet and a clerk. The rest is gone, because of automation. Or garbage disposal. In my home town of Brno, garbage truck is usually crew of three. Two handlers and a driver. Now imagine that IoT expands in to this sector. Imagine battery and engine equiped trash bins, that only need to run them selves to the truck and back. Now you're down to the driver. And this mess is comming, young people see that and go to uni, hoping that education open's them gate to less automatable fields. Now, ask yourself a question. If you were in your late teens, early twenties. Would you rather flip burgers for minimum wage, or empty people's trash cans, or go and study anything, knowing that in your lifetime, your current job, or one you could get right now, will be discontinued? As for incompetent management... they are not. Did I meet someone who was utterly incompetent? Yes, he was my boss. Why was he incompetent? Nobody above him, he wasn't just a manager, he was the owner and simply didn't give a bird about anything. As a result, we had very simplistic, very easy to learn guidlines and nobody, who didn't work directly with him thought he was incompetent. Meanwhile, in my part time job, there was this manager (head of quality controll), who barrated us for assembling computers without ESD coats, gloves and horseshoes (metalic grounding for boots) on. I asked him, why was he such a prick about it, and he explained to me, that we have to do it this way, so that the company can renew a certificate, that their business partners demand for their suppliers to have, otherwise no business. Nobody else asked him why, he never had to explain and everyone thought, that he was over at quality controll, because he was too slow to assemble a PC. I worked with him on night shift one day, the guy kept pace with our production line alone. But because my esteemed collegues didn't know, what his job actually entailed and what were underlying reasons for his policies, they considered him incompetent, even though he was superior to all of them, both in position and in prowes. Don't mistake "book smart, but reality clueless" for more knowlegable than you. The fact, that some things can be done some way doesn't mean, it should be done that way. It may be just so, that the book is right and what is done is wrong. For instance, you definitely could carry a hundred kilograms heavy server alone, it would eventually result with you dropping the server on the ground or worse, on your or somebody else's leg, but it can be done. Resulting damages would have to be paid by someone eventually, because there is a "book", that say's so. If it end's with only a destroyed server, that book is the contract. If it end's up with injuries, it end's up with book of law regarding negligence. Or let's take real life case. Albert Einstein is considered to have been autistic. He was completely clueless about real life and society, however, without his book smarts and unique view point, there would never have been theory fo relativity and consequently no GPS, as theory of relativity is used to better sync satelites with ground devices, because, as crazy as it sound's, time run's slower up there in orbit. Think wider and deeper.
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This is not that bad. Why" This is solvable with proper integrated public transport system. In Czech Republic, we have a number of these. I can get on a bus in the tiniest hamlet in Sourh Moravian county, change to a train on the mainline and get to a city within two hours... From pretty much anywhere in an area twice as alrge as NYC and Long Island combined! Brno main train station is where most of offices are these days and I can change to a tram, bus trolley bus, or another train, to get where my job is. So, I'm at work in about two hours. And can work from train, because there is Internet (and even buses get it these days) as part of fare. Now it ain't perfect. There are dead spots and Internet service on board is slow, but it work's. We are a bit more expencive than most, but it work's and is still cheaper than using a car. Along the mainline, I can even commute to work betwene cities! All of this with a single ticket, single fare. Prague is even crazier in this, as there are buses, trams, trains, subway and even some boats integrated. Now, I think there is a reason to be slightly more optimistic (comming from a person, who's constantly been accused of being a pesimist), is New York's subway system. If New York City and neighbouring counties integrated their carriers in to a single system, extended the subway, so that one could access all of Long Island with it and Connect it to multiple railroad stations for changing transport, one could reduce commute time significantly, thus opening new land with good access to these jobs. Sure, some people would have to move and have longer commute, but integrated public transport system can offset these extra costs. The answer is interoperability and harmonised connections. I realise that New York City is huge and there is motherlode of other communities in greater NYC area, but, I beleive, that betwene rail, and subway, using both express and normal service, all of this system could be navigable in one hour. Even going from Montauk to Croton-Hampton. I realise, that this is a challange, but it can be done. Beyond this post, it's about politics.
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