i was a transit activist for about twenty years. we had many solutions we pushed to alleviate reliance on automobiles and the necessary expensive road infrastructure to support peak commute times. buses and trains were part of the solution but also flex hours at work so not everyone would need to use the road at the same time and work from home. when the pandemic hit, holy fuck did my fellow activists rip off the mask and show their true colors once work from home became the norm and the possibility came up that this would be permanent (even if eventually return to the office happened). after decades of supporting it as a way to reduce pollution, the need for building more roads, and the destruction of neighborhood, nearly every activist turned against it because what they really wanted was to force everyone to live in highrise apartments in the middle of cities, using only public transportation to travel anywhere.  before the pandemic they could claim to support work from home because it was catching on at a glacial pace so they knew it never would be a real solution. they want the government and society to provide their utopia for them of never needing to drive anywhere and they see people living any other way, including working from a home that's not in the center of a city, as a threat to their dreams. they were never open about this before the pandemic but it rapidly came out when they saw work from home as a threat to their true goals.
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