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I really like your point about losing our "second place". It's a great way to verbalize the feeling I've had that permanent WFH on a major scale takes American

I really like your point about losing our "second place". It's a great way to verbalize the feeling I've had that permanent WFH on a major scale takes American individualism to the logical extreme. Rather than learning to live with each other, we'll all just retreat to our own little castles (or shacks), taking all focus away from making public spaces enjoyable for everyone. Who needs public transit when we never leave home? Whatever your station in life is where you'll stay, there are no trains coming. We'll all have a carefully curated whitelist of like-minded neighbors to protect ourselves from witnessing any of the negative externalities of our lifestyles. Our only view of the outside world will be entertainment news that coddles our doxastic anxiety, telling us the exactly what we want to hear at all times.

dimmke 5y ago
>takes American individualism to the logical extreme. It's funny that you opened your comment complimenting how I verbalized something, but this feels like an even better verbalization of it. What's the answer to my crappy 2 hour a day commute? Remote work, not funding public transportation. It's all about convenience without stopping to think of what we're losing as humans. We didn't evolve to live these siloed lives without any sense of community. I feel like American society forments a lot of loneliness. And the tone of it really comes through in the people who advocate so fiercely for it - there's an entitlement there.
ddingus 5y ago
Lucid take! I am glad I do a mix of things. Some are great to WFH, others like hardware dev, R&D benefit from being around machines and often people too.