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I disagree in varying degrees with all of your points, but I'm going to pick on this one because it speaks to a certain elitism and bubble thinking that's been
by remarkEon 5y ago
I disagree in varying degrees with all of your points, but I'm going to pick on this one because it speaks to a certain elitism and bubble thinking that's been increasingly rampant on this topic.
>WFH as the default.
The percentage of the population that can actually do this is much smaller than I think people realize. That percentage is highly over-represented on this website because we're part of the Laptop Class, and privileged as such. Regular people in the vast majority of the country, working hourly wage jobs and the like, cannot do this. Manufacturing, what's left of it in this country, cannot do this (fanciful aspirations of an impending automation revolution aside for a moment, and hey someone has to manufacture and install the robots). This is to say nothing of the fact that most people who aren't wealthy do not have the space at home to facilitate actually working from there.
- somewhereoutth 5y agoMany regular people work in offices, talking to a computer. Indeed it is offices that cause the most transmission risk, as they tend to be small and ill ventilated. Certainly WFH can be the default in those cases. Of course, this detracts from the social performative aspect of work - bosses with the corner office and so forth.