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The 1950s economy was the result of:

1. The New Deal
2. A world war which destroyed the infrastructure of every developed economy except for the US.

The New Deal was only possible because of the Great Depression. Only that level of chaos was enough so that left-wing politicians could push through radical reforms that moved power from the elite to the workers. The reforms of the New Deal remained in place after the war, at least for a while.

The second world war saw the destruction of the industrial capacity of the UK, Germany, France and the USSR. Meanwhile the only attack on the US was an attack on military targets at a Navy base in a distant territory.

So, if you want an economy similar to the 1950s, arrange for a world war which somehow leaves the US unscathed but destroys every other similarly developed economy, then arrange for a great depression which destroys the economy to such an extent that radical reforms can be enacted to hand power to the average worker.

Yes, of course nothing bad would happen if we switched to a 20 hour work week. But, the people with the power aren't going to just allow that to happen. The 40 hour work week only happened with a massive series of strikes that were brutally put down by the cops. The change to a 20 hour week isn't just going to happen because some workers think it would be cool.

That's absolute bullshit. When the 40 hour workweek was "invented", men were working 12 hour days in factories and their wives also worked. The wives sometimes worked in factories, often worked as domestic servants for richer people, or did home-based work. Home based work was often laundry or cooking for other people, not just their family. They'd sometimes also finish goods that were produced in a factory. Both partners were working 12+ days. And, while women did most of the home cooking and cleaning, it wasn't as though that's all they did.

This system ended because the workers used their power and went on strike. The result was the Haymarket Affair and is the reason that most countries, other than the US, celebrate a worker's day on May 1st. The striking workers were attacked and beaten by the cops, and then because a bomb was thrown at a cop, the leaders of an anarchist group were rounded up and hanged after show trials.

Eventually the striking workers got what they were working for: an 8 hour day. But, it took decades after the Haymarket Affair for it to happen, and it wasn't something that happened because everyone agreed it made sense. It was a long and bloody fight where that was the compromise that reduced the bloodshed.

If you want a 20 hour work week, join a union, prepare to go on strike and prepare to be beaten by the cops.

You're pretty lazy if you stopped there.

That's all that was needed.

They can drive past stops that don't have passengers.

Yes, and they often do. But, it's a massive waste of money if they drive an entire route and nobody gets on or off. They only make sense if the population density is enough.

Which makes titles like "Her Worship" and "Honourable" such bullshit. We should really just get rid of those titles.

The first who joined that Safe Place for Science program. I'm sure there have been others who didn't know about that, or didn't want the publicity, but just left quietly when they realized how bad things were getting.

it is people, indeed

When done well, it should be pretty close every five minutes or so.

That only makes sense in a dense, built-up area where there are enough passengers arriving and departing every 5 minutes that it's worthwhile for a bus to stop. That may be true in downtown NYC, but it isn't going to be true of the more distant parts of Long Island.

Second, https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/plural-of-bus.

Thanks for proving my point:

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The plural of the noun bus is buses.

We have those. They're called bikes.

Ok, I know I don't have to take you seriously now.

And they're loud and they smell (both getting better with electric ones, to be fair).

My city just started trialing some electric buses, man are they so much quieter than the deisel buses. One advantage to self-driving cars is that cars can drive themselves to somewhere where they can be charged, which should only make electrification easier. I'm cautiously optimistic that self-driving cars could make cities better, but we'll see.

The city is facing the worse

I think you mean "worst"

It seems to me that saying that someone does not neatly fit into the category of man or woman is accepting that "category of man" and "category of woman" are valid categories. Rather than fighting sexism, it's reinforcing sexism. If someone truly believed that cultural norms about what's male and what's female was sexist BS, there would be no need for a "they" pronoun.

some cultures assign adherence to certain behavioural norms to that

Isn't that sexism, something we should be fighting by saying "women can do that too?"