codyg1985’s Think Tank

Andy Rooney of CBS News has an interesting solution to ease congestion in our cities. Simply allow people to work at varying hours of the day. The effect would be that there would be about the same amount of traffic on the roads, effectively eliminating rush hour.

Some consequences of this would be that people would have their meals, sleeping times, and just about everything else at different times of the day. If this concept was adopted universally, it would lead to a lifestyle change for everyone. Everyone’s lives revolve around their work schedule, so moving the work schedules around to any time slot in the day would mean that the lives of many people would change dramatically. Everyday life would operate on a 24-hour basis, which means that many businesses would need to stay open 24 hours. Energy consumption would increase to keep the lights on all the time.

The idea is a great way to ease congestion, but all of a sudden you only know about half of the people that you would know normally. The other half would be asleep.