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by bluGill 642 days ago
Generally it isn't traffic but it takes too long so you don't even consider it. if we had telleportation I'd have lunch in a Paris café but that would mean 8 hours to get there so I don't consider it.
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We'd still have induced demand even if we had teleportation, the bottleneck would just be the capacity of venues, restaurants, and retail businesses.

You wouldn't consider casually popping into a Paris cafe if the wait was always 4 hours or you had to have a reservation months in advance, which would be the case if travel time was a non-factor for everyone

We might end up with less because we realize we already overbuilt and restaurants were depending on local captivity.