[mbag]

Another win is for the local economy, where remote workers will spend their money.

[woodpanel]

Unless "Hygiene"-Restrictions force you to spend all on "un-local" orgs:

- Clicking on an ad likely sends ad-spending to Google/Amazon/FB/Twitter

- Using the web will increase cloud-costs, money goes to AWS

- buying stuff online likely hapens on Amazon, maybe ebay, maybe etsy

- buying stuff online likely makes your local merchants pay transaction fees to Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard

In that case "Local economy" means more money goes to tech-hubs. Your rural plumber, baker, brewer, dentist etc. will be skimmed more not less.

[mojuba]

There's local groceries though, also local services that can't be remote or online. Groceries alone is a big part of my budget after rent. Clothes & stuff I have managed to bring to the minimum: one or two online purchases per month at most (some months even zero)

[legerdemain]

My local grocer is a Safeway (a nationwide American store chain). For most of the year, fruits and vegetables are imported from other states or countries, like cherries from South America and lettuce from California. And I doubt my Cheerios and Nutella are cooked locally. Pretty much the only local impact of grocery shopping is all the low-paying jobs they create, like shelf stockers and Instacart people.

[celticninja]

But that's really a transfer from the local economy around the office to the local economy around their home.

[nsonha]

No it makes local economies possible where previously all the money was sucked into the nearest city