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The push for the 8 hour work day over a century ago was often accompanied with slogans to the effect of "8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours for what we will."
by commandar 2y ago
The push for the 8 hour work day over a century ago was often accompanied with slogans to the effect of "8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours for what we will."
5 hours round trip commuting a day is giving up over half of your prerogative time to simply shuffling from one place to another.
The Bay Area is lucrative monetarily and all, but there's just no world where that's worth it for me.
- spacemadness 2y agoI’ve worked in tech in the Bay for over a decade and met a handful of people with that insane of a commute. It’s not normal.
- worstspotgain 2y agoThat's because having children in SF is not "normal," a huge fraction of new workers are single male tech workers. SF is the city with the fewest children per capita in the country, Daly City is #6. https://www.aaastateofplay.com/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-and-fewest-children/ https://www.aaastateofplay.com/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-...
- spacemadness 2y agoPlenty of my colleagues have had kids.
- worstspotgain 2y agoWell, OK, there are ways for a young tech family to avoid the 2+ hour commute: - Be extremely well paid, and don't mind buying a $1.5m house that would go for $500K in, say, Pittsburg CA. - Squeeze into an apartment. - Buy near one BART station and find a job near another, e.g. if you buy right next to the Pittsburg station and work at Uber HQ it's 1 hour each way. This mostly rules out Apple, Meta, Google, etc. Another way of course is if your colleagues bought homes at around the time of the market lows, but that was ~15 years ago, so they would not be young families.
- linotype 2y agoWith hours like that, do they really though? Or did they just procreate?
- red-iron-pine 2y agoA lot of people had to literally fight and die for that 8 hour day too.