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I’m not really a big fan of the “Star Trek” utopia where everyone seems to sit around painting and cooking soul food either. Been to New York City lately? We’re

I’m not really a big fan of the “Star Trek” utopia where everyone seems to sit around painting and cooking soul food either. Been to New York City lately? We’re only 50% remote work and the entire city smells like pot around the clock. The first thing I notice when I travel out of the city is the lack of pot smell. So apparently the future is mostly getting baked and surfing Pornhub in 8K HDR on a 65” tv in full view of everyone (the apts here don’t come with window coverings so facing the tv instead of the window is the most modesty you can hope for a lot of the time). Some people need to be given a purpose because otherwise they don’t have one. There is a lot of middle ground between the two extremes of total work and no work.

alephnerd 4y ago
Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation. Retail Marijuana sales have only just started in NYC around the same time as remote work, plus outdoor smoking was legalized barely a year ago, so that might be a factor to the increased prevalence of of smelling Dank in the City. Beats hotboxing your apartment or car.
elijaht 4y ago
No opinion on your overall point (my gut feeling is that some type of steady work is net good for society as a whole) Your evidence is ridiculous. I'm frequently out and about in NYC and I can smell pot every once in a while but not "constantly". I would also imagine that the # of folks smoking pot during work hours is minimal and I don't see an issue with it if you aren't on the clock. I have never seen porn through someones window either lol. Also most people install window coverings.
- itisit 4y ago
  I'm out and about every day in Manhattan, uptown, downtown, and in between. And every day I smell pot multiple times per day. It is positively ubiquitous and disgusting.
kitsunesoba 4y ago
I think what’s being observed here is a sort of whiplash, not dissimilar to how a teenager whose upbringing has been extremely restrictive will likely go hog wild the second they’re no longer subject to their parents’ rules. If one were born into a Star Trek utopia and never had most of their spark of creativity/curiosity extinguished by a school system designed to pump out worker drones and never had the majority of their waking hours sold off just to exist, I believe they’d be a lot less likely to be a couch potato. There’s no reason the go nuts with burning personal time with “junk food” recreation when personal time has never been at a shortage.
sublinear 4y ago
Sounds like Idiocracy
francisofascii 4y ago
> Some people need to be given a purpose because otherwise they don’t have one. There is a lot of middle ground between the two extremes of total work and no work. I would argue we are currently at the working constantly extreme and hopefully moving toward a better balance. Cooking soul food is still work that needs to get done. It would be nice to have a little more time each day to cook a proper meal and to have time for more purposeful driven work.

alephnerd 4y ago

Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation. Retail Marijuana sales have only just started in NYC around the same time as remote work, plus outdoor smoking was legalized barely a year ago, so that might be a factor to the increased prevalence of of smelling Dank in the City. Beats hotboxing your apartment or car.

elijaht 4y ago

No opinion on your overall point (my gut feeling is that some type of steady work is net good for society as a whole) Your evidence is ridiculous. I'm frequently out and about in NYC and I can smell pot every once in a while but not "constantly". I would also imagine that the # of folks smoking pot during work hours is minimal and I don't see an issue with it if you aren't on the clock. I have never seen porn through someones window either lol. Also most people install window coverings.

itisit 4y ago
I'm out and about every day in Manhattan, uptown, downtown, and in between. And every day I smell pot multiple times per day. It is positively ubiquitous and disgusting.

kitsunesoba 4y ago

I think what’s being observed here is a sort of whiplash, not dissimilar to how a teenager whose upbringing has been extremely restrictive will likely go hog wild the second they’re no longer subject to their parents’ rules. If one were born into a Star Trek utopia and never had most of their spark of creativity/curiosity extinguished by a school system designed to pump out worker drones and never had the majority of their waking hours sold off just to exist, I believe they’d be a lot less likely to be a couch potato. There’s no reason the go nuts with burning personal time with “junk food” recreation when personal time has never been at a shortage.

sublinear 4y ago

Sounds like Idiocracy

francisofascii 4y ago

> Some people need to be given a purpose because otherwise they don’t have one. There is a lot of middle ground between the two extremes of total work and no work. I would argue we are currently at the working constantly extreme and hopefully moving toward a better balance. Cooking soul food is still work that needs to get done. It would be nice to have a little more time each day to cook a proper meal and to have time for more purposeful driven work.