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I knew as I wrote it that it would be far more complex than just setting a single law down. But the fact that such cost of time and money just to get to work exists suggests the burden isn't balanced well. The case you mention of distance to a job is more a symptom of the problem of not being more localized for everything. Not just an American problem, but definitely something we deal with outside of a few major urban areas. A pay adjustment doesn't fix that, it just is a rough patch that wouldn't work for some.
In all honesty I think it's connected to the housing crisis bleeding into basically every other political issue, because of how damn massive of a problem it is