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Honestly? 1500 words before this post even gets anywhere. >In only a few months, the coronavirus (‘COVID’) pandemic had devastating economic, social, and healt

Honestly? 1500 words before this post even gets anywhere. >In only a few months, the coronavirus (‘COVID’) pandemic had devastating economic, social, and health impacts worldwide. Today, millions of lives have been lost, and the end of the crisis seems it may finally be in sight Here's 37 words that literally no one needed to read.

mpalmer 5y ago
No one reading it in 2022, maybe. Easy to imagine someone reading it in 20 years and benefiting from the context. Have some perspective.
- rmbyrro 5y ago
  How many people will read it today and how many are likely to read in 2040? I would argue it's better to optimize for today's readers. Not that difficult for 2040's readers to pick the context.
- aunty_helen 5y ago
  >The pandemic has also accelerated an already existent movement of remote working. The very next line that will allow for that. This info also doesn't have a long lifespan as laws are always changing and digital nomad visas are becoming more common. In 2 years time much of the information may not even apply to the country that you're living in.
rmbyrro 5y ago
And even when it gets to the point, I don't understand why they have to complicate matters so much. I may be an outlier, but have been working cross-border remotely for 6+ years and absolutely never needed this legal stuff. Quite opposite, I was super thankful to have an excuse to escaping local legal insanity and also ignoring insanities abroad. It's like being "country-less" in terms of these crap legal stuff. It's a dream. Again, my personal experience here. Don't know if it works the same for all...
- aunty_helen 5y ago
  I've found the same over the past 4 years. Escaping the overburden of 'first world' countries can be extremely liberating and help get shit done. Now that I'm hiring staff this stuff actually applies but whenever there is information presented it's "speak to a legal representative" as the bottom line. When you speak to someone pro bono it's "depends on what country you're in, been in, born in, planning to stay in", then when you finally pay it's still your responsibility if something gets messed up. There's companies out there that claim to solve these problems for you, I fired one of them this week because they couldn't get the basics of pay the people on time right.

mpalmer 5y ago

No one reading it in 2022, maybe. Easy to imagine someone reading it in 20 years and benefiting from the context. Have some perspective.

rmbyrro 5y ago
How many people will read it today and how many are likely to read in 2040? I would argue it's better to optimize for today's readers. Not that difficult for 2040's readers to pick the context.
aunty_helen 5y ago
>The pandemic has also accelerated an already existent movement of remote working. The very next line that will allow for that. This info also doesn't have a long lifespan as laws are always changing and digital nomad visas are becoming more common. In 2 years time much of the information may not even apply to the country that you're living in.

rmbyrro 5y ago

And even when it gets to the point, I don't understand why they have to complicate matters so much. I may be an outlier, but have been working cross-border remotely for 6+ years and absolutely never needed this legal stuff. Quite opposite, I was super thankful to have an excuse to escaping local legal insanity and also ignoring insanities abroad. It's like being "country-less" in terms of these crap legal stuff. It's a dream. Again, my personal experience here. Don't know if it works the same for all...

aunty_helen 5y ago
I've found the same over the past 4 years. Escaping the overburden of 'first world' countries can be extremely liberating and help get shit done. Now that I'm hiring staff this stuff actually applies but whenever there is information presented it's "speak to a legal representative" as the bottom line. When you speak to someone pro bono it's "depends on what country you're in, been in, born in, planning to stay in", then when you finally pay it's still your responsibility if something gets messed up. There's companies out there that claim to solve these problems for you, I fired one of them this week because they couldn't get the basics of pay the people on time right.