[spookthesunset]

Nobody wants to fucking do any work anymore. I hate to blame it on all this remote work crap but I highly suspect it plays a lot into it. When everybody is a small rectangular box featuring a head and shoulders, the human connection is completely gone. It's all fake internet shit now so who cares? Plus all interaction has to be gated through meetings and shit. Things happen much, much slower.

I dunno man. It isn't the pandemic itself that did this. It's societies response to it that caused all this mess and it will take quite some time for things to revert back to the mean. It sucks. I hate it. But that is what it is gonna be.

The last 2.5 years has felt like some dystopian nightmare that refuses to go away. It completely sucks.

[canadaduane]

I wonder if we're going through a transformation period where we don't yet have a grasp on the cultural habits and institutions that make our hybrid online-offline worlds fulfill our human needs--like meaning, significance, belonging, achievement, etc.

I suspect there are some things we took for granted in a "fully offline" world that we haven't figured out yet. Things like how "being seen" while working helped establish self-confidence; or, "overhearing" a conversation in the office helped make work a social-first experience.

I'm trying to understand what some of these might be, because I want to help cultivate the solution at relm.us. My personal work is to better understand psychological human needs and translate the fulfillment of them into an enabling social (spatial) platform.

Maybe it's the answer, and maybe it isn't. But as you've outlined, the cost of not understanding the problem are very high.

[gnz11]

> Nobody wants to fucking do any work anymore.

Or maybe it’s years of corporations treating their employees like dogshit “resources” catching up to them? No career mobility, low pay, toxic middle managers, little vacation time, etc.