so I have a mental model I wanted to share. I hope it's simple.
Imagine the 80/20 rule - we all know it. It's simple. 80% of the good stuff comes from 20% of the effort. 80% of the value society gets from journies comes from 20% of the actual journies. Doctors driving to hospital, farmers driving food to market etc.
Now repeat the 80% rule on the remaining 80% of journeys - and we find that 16% of the value we get comes from just 16% of the effort.
So we can argue that 96% of the value society gets comes from 36% of journeys- basically 2/3 of all we do is just crap.
So how do we find ways to replace 2/3 of the effort
much more public transport is the first take.
Reduced door to door deliveries perhaps (I mean is a deliveroo starbucks a good idea?)
but then we hit the big infrastructure stuff - denser housing (ala strilong towns) and yes, spend energy moving humans but not a ton of metal around the human.
Imagine the 80/20 rule - we all know it. It's simple. 80% of the good stuff comes from 20% of the effort. 80% of the value society gets from journies comes from 20% of the actual journies. Doctors driving to hospital, farmers driving food to market etc.
Now repeat the 80% rule on the remaining 80% of journeys - and we find that 16% of the value we get comes from just 16% of the effort.
So we can argue that 96% of the value society gets comes from 36% of journeys- basically 2/3 of all we do is just crap.
So how do we find ways to replace 2/3 of the effort
much more public transport is the first take.
Reduced door to door deliveries perhaps (I mean is a deliveroo starbucks a good idea?)
but then we hit the big infrastructure stuff - denser housing (ala strilong towns) and yes, spend energy moving humans but not a ton of metal around the human.