With a transit strike happening starting today, a bunch of local forums have essentially the same discussion:
A: I'm too poor to Uber and I'm not going to be able to get to work
B: Just walk
C: I'm not going to walk 2/3/4 hours
B: what's the problem? Just walk
C: I'm disabled and/or have a family or other commitments and can't spend 2/3/4 hours commuting each way
D: So? Solidarity
People seem to have a hard time understanding that not everyone is an able-bodied person with infinite free time.
BTW, 4 hours isn't even close to an upper bound on walking time. I looked up two big suburbs people commute in from that have (had) transit and the Google Maps walking estimates are 10 and 16 hours, respectively.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't strike (and I think most people in tech underrate unions), but telling people to "just deal with it" when they're inconvenienced by a transit strike is only going to turn people against the cause.
@danluu I was thinking my perspective was pretty disconnected from yours, but then I realized I should ask the question - which cause are you talking about?
@ech @danluu that was my initial assumption too, but I realized it's not fair to assume as he could have meant the cause of the Coast Mountain Bus Company trying to get a cheaper contract.