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> Nothing is as expensive as your time.

Then public transport should be way cheaper than driving, as on transit you have some downtime where you can scroll through your phone, listen to some music, or perhaps even crack open your laptop if you're on a proper train. Driving requires constant attention, so you can't relax or do anything else in the meantime.

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If scrolling through your phone were worthwhile enough that being able to do it made up for the loss of time, people would deliberately take trains instead of cars just so they could take a little longer but be able to scroll through their phones.

Scrolling through your phone is not exactly quality time. In general the time spent on any form of commuting is a net cost to be minimized.

Depends on what you're doing. I frequently use my rides to go through email.

Which you can also do during any of the time you don't spend commuting, without having to do it on a noisy train car.

At the limit the optimal commute is work from home.

I do work from home, actually. Regardless, I still have places to be at times that are not my house.

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