[bedhead]

The ripple effect from our unhinged covid response continues to be felt in countless places, from school absenteeism to downtown office space values to public transportation and on and on. We created new habits that are hard to break and naturally none of the hysterics who tried to unwind society gave any thought to anything besides trying to temporarily feel “safe.” There’s always a tradeoff…

[7thaccount]

Another way to look at it is that during lockdown people realized that millions driving through rush hour every day to sit in a cubicle was a drain on the time of employees and a waste of company money in renting the building. I don't care if commercial real estate took a hit outside of impacts to pension/401k. We have the technology now and the pandemic proved it, so we can now evolve in that area. No need to be stuck in that hell loop forever.

[halfcat]

Exactly this.

The curtain was pulled back and people realized the lies they were being fed by companies.

Turns out the business won’t fold if people are remote, and if you’re out sick that immovable deadline gets…moved.

[whiterknight]

Maybe it won’t collapse but maybe everything is only working 70% as well as it used to. It sure feels that way.

[Nextgrid]

If purchasing power falls 30% it’s only fair that things are only working 70%.

Spoiler alert: purchasing power fell way more than 30%, so we are actually lucky things work still as much as they do.

[bombcar]

Or another way to put it, if 50% of everything is bullshit, you can cut out quite a bit and still not really effect anything.

The number of TPS reports filed is not the actual value to the economy, but it gets counted in the GDP.

[whiterknight]

So the comment above admits that people are taking more time off and working less. So is your argument that the majority of work that we lost didn’t matter anyway?