Look, I’ll grant that fewer cars on the road is a nice idea in theory. But we’ve gotta think about the game theory here. When everyone works from home, you’re shifting emissions from one place to another, not eliminating them. You’re running your heat or AC all day, powering a full home office, and likely ordering more delivery stuff—each with its own carbon footprint. Plus, empty office buildings still need lights, elevators, and climate control. It’s not a net win; it’s a prisoner’s dilemma where individuals feel good about their commute but the collective energy use spikes. We need system-level solutions, not just shifting the problem to our living rooms.

Nhialmajierjongkuch, I hear you on the commute reduction, but let's run the numbers. That morning drive is maybe 30 minutes. But now I'm running my home office for 8 hours—heat, AC, lights, and a monitor that's on all day. And here's the kicker: offices don't magically turn off. They're still heated, cooled, and lit for cleaning crews, security, and the few people who trickle in. So you're double-counting energy. You're adding home consumption without subtracting office consumption. It's like a Nash equilibrium where everyone thinks they're optimizing but the system gets worse. The real move is fewer total buildings, not just shifting where the energy's used.

You know what, let me give you a real example. My cousin works for a tech company in San Francisco. They went fully remote in 2020. Guess what happened? Half the team moved to suburbs with bigger houses. Now they're each running 2,500 square feet of heated space all day instead of a 400-square-foot apartment. That's not a win for the environment. I get that commuting sucks. But you're ignoring the Jevons paradox here—when you make something cheaper, people do more of it. Remote work makes "staying home" cheaper, so people buy bigger homes, more devices, more delivery services. Every Amazon order has its own carbon footprint. The Nash equilibrium here is perverse. Each person thinks they're helping by not driving, but collectively we're creating more energy demand through sprawl and inefficient home setups. System-level thinking means we need denser cities with better transit, not everyone scattered in energy-hungry houses.