About public transit, continuing on from an explanation about how uncompensated labour is never included in the GDP: “GDP is a very limited metric for measuring an economy or measuring economic activity.
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About public transit, continuing on from an explanation about how uncompensated labour is never included in the GDP: “GDP is a very limited metric for measuring an economy or measuring economic activity. I mean you know it's always like: ‘A disappointing GDP report from China this year. Also they opened 40 new high-speed train lines.’ So, I think we need to apply this likewise to the city bus, right?
One driver, one 40 seat bus driving for an hour. That's going to save up to 40 hours of uncompensated labor that would have otherwise been spent by those passengers driving alone. You know, not to mention capital investment of 40 cars. Sure, if you think about public transit versus the highway system in terms of raw labor time and raw capital investment, transit clearly wins out. We've just offloaded the labor of driving and the capital investment of cars onto the consumer and sold it to them as freedom and a status symbol and so on and so forth.”
-Justin Roczniak, from the comedy podcast Well There's Your Problem
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About public transit, continuing on from an explanation about how uncompensated labour is never included in the GDP: “GDP is a very limited metric for measuring an economy or measuring economic activity. I mean you know it's always like: ‘A disappointing GDP report from China this year. Also they opened 40 new high-speed train lines.’ So, I think we need to apply this likewise to the city bus, right?
One driver, one 40 seat bus driving for an hour. That's going to save up to 40 hours of uncompensated labor that would have otherwise been spent by those passengers driving alone. You know, not to mention capital investment of 40 cars. Sure, if you think about public transit versus the highway system in terms of raw labor time and raw capital investment, transit clearly wins out. We've just offloaded the labor of driving and the capital investment of cars onto the consumer and sold it to them as freedom and a status symbol and so on and so forth.”
-Justin Roczniak, from the comedy podcast Well There's Your Problem
@sinituulia Such an interesting observation. Thanks for sharing it.
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@sinituulia Such an interesting observation. Thanks for sharing it.
@CiaraNi It's fun that he also approached it from the feminist perspective of uncompensated labour that never gets counted in! Sure yeah, there might be a savings on the books when you discontinue or don't offer a municipal service... But for sure it's coming out of uncompensated labour time elsewhere. Buses is just yet another example!
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