• knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 hours ago

    But why can’t the economy shut down for a few days?

    In the past the economy had to shut down because of bad weather regularly, now we have all those machines and produce much more efficiently.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      In the past they worked a 6 day work week. They’d only call it off due to weather if they had no infrastructure to handle the current weather.

      We could institute not working and shutting things down anytime it snows, it also means your municipality will likely gut their snow clearing budget as they won’t justify clearing the streets unless its going to be used for economic activity. They’ll instead wait for the snow to stop and only run clearing operations then as it would take less passes with the plow compared to constantly clearing and salting/sanding.