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by Terr_ 996 days ago
IMO that's not really about commute-costs as much as about bargaining-power, labor relations, and competitive markets.

Commute costs are kind of like inflation: In the very long term it's balanced by wages... but there's a lot of living that happens at shorter timescales. The longer before the situation is renegotiated, the more time one side has to exploit the imbalance.