[ragingrobot]

> the new hotness will be something like a small company "town" in the outskirts somewhere.

So the "new hotness" will be kind of like the old days where you worked for Pullman, and with those wages you earned, you: paid rent to Pullman, bought your goods at the Pullman general store, and so on in effect giving much of your earnings back to the company.

[cratermoon]

You mean like...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/18/is-elon-musk...

[ikekkdcjkfke]

In europe that's exactly what the state it is. There's so many levels of taxation, company-, employement-, wage-, pension-, health- and property-tax. And then there is 25% vat on everything.

[marcosdumay]

Hum... Did the thread stop being about remote work at some point? I missed it.