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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by King@lemy.lol to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

Edit 1: I did not mean factories, I meant businesses with the usual meaning.

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[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

It is also unnecessary for me to retain a corporeal presence, it just ties my vast mental capacity and consciousness to a slow, fragile meat sack.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 14 points 7 months ago

Have you tried converting yourself into a website?

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I did but then I got replaced by an app and then my developers stopped really updating me and so I’m just broken and abandoned now.

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[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’d be curious how you get to 80-85% - sounds like a number pulled out of thin air. IMHO, I think the estimation is way off.

IIRC in the US 20% of companies are in the goods producing industry, and producing physical goods tends to be difficult without a physical location. Even being generous and only guesstimating half of those need physical locations, we’re already straight in the middle of your 5-15% estimate, and we haven’t even looked at service based industries, which represent most of the rest of the economy... Just things such as restaurants, shopping/retail, entertainment and hospitality are probably a much larger portion of the remaining 80% of businesses than the 5% we’re left with based on your number.

Edit: your edit doesn’t change much about the statement. Even factoring out manufacturing altogether, I’m pretty sure the stuff I mentioned is probably more than 15% out of the 80% that’s left (therefore from service industry), so not really possible to do without some physical presence...

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

80%-95% of internet statistics are made up

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I heard it was closer to between 110% and -3%

[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

"Never trust quotes from the Internet"

  • Alexander Graham Bell
[-] Denvil@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

"Alexander Graham Bell can eat a lemon" -Genghis Khan

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I think you haven’t run the numbers on what the breakdown of different industries is.

For example, there’s around 600,000 tech companies in the United States, but there’s around 750,000 restaurants. I agree that most of those tech companies could work from home, but I doubt a Taco Bell could be successful like that.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The edit part I figured was obvious.

Side note I disagree with you.

How would a insurance agency run with out a physical regular building? Some stuff you can do at home but the servers have to be somewhere. People want the ability to go to their agents office.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everything in the primary and secondary sector requires a physical space. And atleast 80% of the tertiary sector does too.

Id say its the other way round. About 5% don't.

So upvote ig since tho incorrect it's unpopular

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think that anyone would be happy if the shop across the street that makes 2500hp+ NHRA motors would be pleased if they were building and dyno testing them in a residential area.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I don't see a good reason why I would avail space in my home for the use of my employer. Real estate is expensive.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

This seems more like a debatabe assertion of fact than an opinion with an inevitable follow up question of whether they should

Not sure I'd trust a purely remote law firm, pharmacy or insurance company to properly handle/destroy sensitive documents

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

This whole thing feels like something a person with a brand new MBA would come up with.

Wow we can outsource everything and cut all overhead.

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