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0 pointsmilesrout1y ago0 comments

Your way of looking at things is fundamentally broken. You will never understand society or other people if your analysis is that we could transform society with technology but we choose not to because... some people are just evil and don't want to.

The reality is that remote work meant a massive drop in productivity. It sucks if you are one of the few that is equally or more productive at home than at work. If you are, then you are few and far between. Most people working from home do sweet FA. Everyone knows this and everyone talked about it constantly for all of the WFH period right until they were asked to work from the office again.

>The psychopathy of the executives lies in their desire to make this structure persist. RTO mandates are an irrational attempt to brute-force rollback the tiny bit of power they gave up to the masses during covid. CEOs are evil. They are evil because they perpetuate a system of labor that increases inequality and puts most people under unnecessary duress because of an artificially imposed scarcity.

You are either insane or you have completely swallowed some source of propaganda. Evil? Artificial scarcity? System of labour? Do you even hear yourself? Take a step back from the computer, stop listening to podcasts and just think for yourself. Or if this is you thinking for yourself, find someone else to do your thinking for you, because you're not good at it.

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voidhorse1y ago

You haven't provided any meaningful counterclaims or additional perspective. You seem to be upset just because I think c-suite executives are not morally respectable. You claim my way of looking at things is "broken" but you fail to provide any rationale as to why. I claim that execs are incentivized to preserve an inequitable system because they directly benefit from it. Talking about their "psychopathy" and "evil" is a hyperbolic way to illustrate that they put profit over people, which anyone with a single functioning cell behind their eyeballs could tell you is patently obvious. My use of these terms was in direct response to the OP tweet, which already dumbed down the discourse to the level of "evil" and "good"—blame the nincompoop exec for bringing the conversation to this level, I am merely operating on it.

> The reality is that remote work meant a massive drop in productivity.

By what measure? Across all companies, or only for a few? How do you define "productivity" in a general sense without measuring against a specific goal?

Speaking of propaganda, you sound like someone who has bought into the current status quo so deeply that you find it anathema to even think about alternatives as being possible. If "thinking for yourself" means to blindly follow the status quo, not question the distribution of wealth in society and to not consider whether or not we can better leverage our current capabilities to the benefit of more people, then yes, no thanks, I'd rather not think for myself.

I don't listen to podcasts. I read books and I think beyond my immediate experience. You should try it sometime. It might help you realize how foolish you are to defend people that actively exploit you and your labor.