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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Yup. I argued with Ty about whether comm r/e had a limited future as a result of connective tech a few months back. My thinking was comm r/e was wasteful and environmentally harmful and had no defense. He asserted that people need to work on certain things in common quarters.

I think we're both right. But this virus is going to prove that comm r/e is only needed for a limited number of business functions, and for a whole lot of others it's just as waste of money.

Eliminating useless office space is environmentally friendly (decreases commuting), eliminates some stress (no more sitting in traffic), taxes the infrastructure less (fewer vehicles wearing down roads and bridges), and could solve some housing affordability problems in cities by flooding the market with new apartments converted from office spaces.

At least in California, it's really hard for that conversion to happen because the cities take a big tax hit so they don't want to rezone. For example, this has taken years.