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>Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making Well that lasted about 10 years or so. RTO mandate is the exact

>Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making Well that lasted about 10 years or so. RTO mandate is the exact opposite of this.

renewiltord 1y ago
I'd think it's perfectly in line with this. He wants seamless fusion at the team level. So everyone has to act uniformly consistent with that. That seems natural to me.
cheschire 1y ago
What if one of the motivators of RTO was to lower the value of rural land? During COVID, a lot of places that were considered untenable from a commuting perspective suddenly became viable options under remote work. But under RTO everyone would have to move closer to their offices again. This would then enable the rich to more easily transfer their wealth into rural land in order to hedge a perceived coming recession. Bezos et al would benefit directly from this. I know. It’s silly.
- SR2Z 1y ago
  Do you think that the recession would make it worth more or less? Hard for me to see how this makes sense.
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- esseph 1y ago
  There's some evidence that it may be tied to commercial real estate value, in some cases.
hinkley 1y ago
Are you accusing a billionaire of being a hypocrite? Whaaaat?
RA_Fisher 1y ago
RTO seems like a bound-to-fail last gasp to enforce the patriarchy at work (and things that flow from it, sexism, racism, ableism, etc.).
- toasterlovin 11mo ago
  On the one hand, your politics seem diametrically opposed to RA Fisher’s, so it seems unlikely your username is a tribute, but on the other hand, how many statisticians are named RA Fisher?
  - RA_Fisher 11mo ago
    I chose it long ago and it was a tribute to the man. Then I learned about support for eugenics, and how he shilled for big tobacco by repeatedly insisting a causal relation between smoking and cancer was unidentifiable. He did certainly have some advanced statistical ideas. These days I keep it more as a tribute to the field of statistics. Fisher is worth learning— with context. Politics-wise, I benefit from learning from Fisher (but obviously the reverse isn’t true). So it’s reasonable to say my views are more informed.

>Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making Well that lasted about 10 years or so. RTO mandate is the exact opposite of this.

renewiltord 1y ago

I'd think it's perfectly in line with this. He wants seamless fusion at the team level. So everyone has to act uniformly consistent with that. That seems natural to me.

cheschire 1y ago

What if one of the motivators of RTO was to lower the value of rural land? During COVID, a lot of places that were considered untenable from a commuting perspective suddenly became viable options under remote work. But under RTO everyone would have to move closer to their offices again. This would then enable the rich to more easily transfer their wealth into rural land in order to hedge a perceived coming recession. Bezos et al would benefit directly from this. I know. It’s silly.

SR2Z 1y ago
Do you think that the recession would make it worth more or less? Hard for me to see how this makes sense.
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esseph 1y ago
There's some evidence that it may be tied to commercial real estate value, in some cases.

hinkley 1y ago

Are you accusing a billionaire of being a hypocrite? Whaaaat?

RA_Fisher 1y ago

RTO seems like a bound-to-fail last gasp to enforce the patriarchy at work (and things that flow from it, sexism, racism, ableism, etc.).

toasterlovin 11mo ago
On the one hand, your politics seem diametrically opposed to RA Fisher’s, so it seems unlikely your username is a tribute, but on the other hand, how many statisticians are named RA Fisher?
- RA_Fisher 11mo ago
  I chose it long ago and it was a tribute to the man. Then I learned about support for eugenics, and how he shilled for big tobacco by repeatedly insisting a causal relation between smoking and cancer was unidentifiable. He did certainly have some advanced statistical ideas. These days I keep it more as a tribute to the field of statistics. Fisher is worth learning— with context. Politics-wise, I benefit from learning from Fisher (but obviously the reverse isn’t true). So it’s reasonable to say my views are more informed.