More BBC guff about how wonderful it is to commute again
It's quite obvious that this is public relations in promotion of commuting, and there are many stakeholders interested in it. Firstly, there's plenty of businesses that depend on commuters, from railways, tube, buses, parkings to cafes and - most importantly - the office space owners. Plenty of wealthy individuals and companies - but also investment funds and pension funds - have invested into the office space, and the pandemics has a potential to burst the bubble.
its also the case that even before Covid the "night time economy" was being viewed as undesirable (noise, alcohol, drugs, DUI etc) and clamped down on in favour of corporate office work in cities (eg: many provincial nightclubs being closed down and becoming office space) but now the pandemic threatens this as well...
@kat Precisely! 👍 by the way, I was thinking about Bastiat too for a moment but his "Candlemakers petition" came to my mind and then I decided it's not that well of an analogy 😂
@kravietz Oh! That's a good one, I hadn't seen it before. Yes.. the commute industry are the candlemakers.
thank you!
@kravietz surely it's all covered in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window