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Believing that everything will shift to remote work and borders will disappear is in my opinion naive.

• minikites 5y ago
  Borders and nationalism are pretty recent developments on the timeline of human civilization, I don't see why both ideas couldn't fade over time.
  • EdwinLarkin 5y ago
    Coming from a nation whose borders shifted all the time I definitely dont see it like that.
  • pm90 5y ago
    It would require a sea change in thinking, or get people comfortable with the idea of not belonging to nations. As you point out Nationalism has been a pretty recent development. It has mostly been enforced by indoctrination in the education systems and culture. While it has had many many issues, we have seen it reduce the number of conflicts and wars by a lot, and thus it appears to be a reasonable solution. Whatever solution aims to replace it would have to not only overcome all of these barriers, but provide better results as well.
• meheleventyone 5y ago
  Working for a fully distributed company it definitely feels like it's not naive. Certainly everything won't go this way but it's a lot easier than most people think. Apart from at setup time and with public holiday schedules those borders are not very apparent.
  • EdwinLarkin 5y ago
    And does your company employ hundreds of people or is it a small biz < 99 ppl?
    • meheleventyone 5y ago
      Companies with 1000s of people have been remote forever. I worked at Autodesk in a team across two multinational companies which on our side were through Toronto to us in Iceland and on to Shanghai. If you think big teams aren’t distributed you’ve not worked in a big team.