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What's even more stupid about return to office is that we know that commuting is a major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. So working from home would not only be an improvement in work conditions, sparing millions of individuals hours of wasted commuting time each week, it would also be an easy way to reduce pollution and mitigate global warming.
Laws should be passed that mandate employees can work from home whenever it cannot be demonstrated by the company that being on site is absolutely necessary to do the job.
If you look around, fast food places and Pepsico and everyone price gouging, it's a race to the bottom for a last cash-grab before what appears to be an inevitable recession -- brought on by some of these same conglomerates. Mass layoffs (tech sector over 250k layoffs last year across the board), among inflation just murdering people's wallets. Credit card debt is over 1 trillion now, people are "surviving" off of high interest debt to maintain life at this point, but it's not sustainable at current rates.
We are witnessing companies engage in late stage capitalist practices because we are in late stage capitalism. Unfortunately I don't see us flipping to socialism, so Imo were heading towards recession, depression, and collapse, all while the climate continues to fuck us.
To be fair, I believe the consensus is that we fucked the climate first.
Climate 2: Fuck of Revenge
Climate change is a power bottom.
We thought we were the dom in the relationship and all the sudden the climate just handcuffed us to the bed post and jammed a cold hard unlubricated steel butt plug up our ass and gave us a golden shower without telling us the safe word to stop it.
You can move to North Korea and enjoy socialism!
Not so big on the dictator for life and beyond part, we can do better than that, why not a socialist democracy?
You wanted socialism. Can't have socialism without a dictatorship.
Oh, you've been propagandized against an economic arrangement, that must feel strange. Hopefully capitalism will save you 🙄
Yeah, after growing up in communism, I'm pretty happy with capitalism.
I'm happy for you. Sounds like you've got a lot more to learn about it though lol.
Or maybe you should move to North Korea to enjoy communism for a while.
Thanks for the discussion. As someone born and raised in capitalism, just give it 30 or 40 years, you'll be ready for something new.
I'm not young enough to live another 40 years, but every year brings new and exciting opportunities and I'm looking forward to enjoying all of them!
Don't worry, capitalism will destroy the climate before it gets a chance to get stale for you.
Nah, it won't.
Lol
The Nordic countries would like a word.
The other stupid part is that WFH makes more sense from a business perspective. Having to pay less in office rent and utilities is great for saving on costs.
Not only that, less people driving means less people buying gas, which drives the gas price down as we saw during the pandemic. When the gas price goes down, everything is cheaper. This could be a great way to get a bit of relief on the inflation.