I’m intuitively persuaded by the ol Ozimek argument that remote work effects will vary by firm type (not just size/age) & I’d think by industry, so firms will drift toward their own optimal balance. Github seems to suggest a narrow slice of both. Hard to avoid that problem, but what do you think?

Our key finding is that remote critics and boosters both have a point. Remote work increases productivity for workers at *startups* while reducing it for incumbent firms

We instrument for remote work with pre-pandemic occupational suitability for identification

Kiwis screwed again tho

I noticed this as well

I have yet to experience this, presumably because I have no edge

Tolls are better than freeway lanes, but if we’re talking tax maximization, the fact that Clark County residents pay more total Oregon income taxes than all but a handful of Oregon counties seems like a fair point in the other direction

I heard a good point from a person who uses a chair about the difficulty of knowing what floor you're on when you can't turn around. Is this a thing you've ever seen discussed?

only in that still! it appears in the video a moment later because they too have stuck to their unique standard (and also have very few elevators per capita)

The U.S. used to be the elevator capital of the world, but no more; now we're less than 5% of the market. Having our own bespoke technical standard is ridiculous.

In other words, to have more age-friendly & accessible housing, Americans need to

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get over ourselves

I'll be here all year folks

A group of accessibility & housing orgs just started assembling the "National Coalition for Elevator Reform."

Our longest-term goal is to harmonize the U.S.'s needlessly unique technical standards to the international standards, opening our elevator market.

Join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This makes an especially big difference on smaller parcels, where the only direction to go is up, & in smaller towns, where markets rarely support buildings of 50 or more homes.

So, unlike our peers around the world, most North Americans have just learned to live without.

U.S. elevators cost 3-4 more than elevators in other rich countries to install & maintain. (Including maintenance, one of ours costs about as much as an entire home.)

As a result, we have by far the fewest elevators in the developed world.

We were both honored to have input from @stephenjacobsmith.com, whose big 2024 report put this issue on the map the way Donald Shoup's big book unmasked the costs of free parking.

We wanted to make its core ideas easy to digest in 14 minutes.

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I've been watching @uytaelee.bsky.social's smart, funny mini-documentaries about urban issues for years. When @sightline.org started talking about collaborating, I love that he too was excited about investigating elevators.

Here it is on his channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1_...