[stevekemp]

You think the ability to work remotely is a more significant health-benefit than tackling water-shortages, obesity, drugs, and climate change?

It is OK to have a niche, and to use hyperbole, but when it comes to human health and happiness I'm certain there are more significant issues which are real, and growing, than where somebody works (if they can, must, or even do have a job).

[anoncoward111]

The problems you have listed would immediately cease if US and Chinese corporations had any ethics whatsoever.

Obesity is caused by stress eating, cheap junk food, marketing, and a sedentary lifestyle due to a desk job. 2 billion people in South/East/SouthEast Asia live long lives because they are outside the influence of the Western diet.

When you say drugs, I dont know if you mean medicine or heroin. Most medicine is cheap. Pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies hold a cartel over its pricing. As for illegal drugs, decriminalize it like portugal and your problems will cease.

Climate change should be obvious. If everyone stopped consuming the wasteful products US corps market as disposable (gas, cars, meat, etc), we would cut our greenhouse emissions overnight.

All of these problems would end if corporations were somehow forced to stop. I doubt anyone will ever acquire the political momentum to do that.

[ghosterrific]

Yes.

The problems you describe above would be greatly reduced.

- Less fuel consumption means less water use, less pollution

- Less wasted time commuting means more time to relax and less stress eating, more time to prepare better food and better sleep

The ability and effectiveness of working from home will have compound improvements to the other specific problems you listed.

Imagine if every worker had a couple extra hours to sleep better, eat better and time with family to solve the problems above.