Not sure it's gotta be so gloomy. You can still work from the mountains very, very comfortably at 50% of a SV salary. If you aren't working for a major publicl

Not sure it's gotta be so gloomy. You can still work from the mountains very, very comfortably at 50% of a SV salary. If you aren't working for a major publicly-traded big tech firm, chances are this is not going to be happening to you in the first place. Big tech's motivation for doing this is clearly cost-cutting and avoiding liabilities they cannot yield total control over. If Google can't get you fat & giggly on paternalistic "benefits," hosted on their corporate campus, they're afraid you won't become the subservient non-skeptical workhorse they believe they need. So, they've got to start finding ways to offset the costs they believe will be coming from having employees who aren't being dominated under the total surveillance and control of Google's ever-present watching eyes.