I was talking to some buddies of mine the other day about remote work: is it sustainable long term. If remote work starts to collapse, everyone who has moved out of the cities might find themselves unable to afford homes. I wrote a whole post about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

i think it cant be compared with 2000.. back then the internet was just new and hyped. These days it has settled and most remote jobs are needed by every industry.

Why would remote work become unsustainable spontaneously?

There’s a simple answer here: yes, remote work is sustainable. There is no reason whatsoever why it would collapse. The house of cards that is capitalism may as well collapse - and as everything else inherently unsustainable - must at some point. There’s nothing inherently unsustainable in remote work, and you definitely don’t need a lengthy incoherent ramble to debate that where for most parts you don’t and where you equate capitalism with the universe…

@100110111 Well that was mean. Incoherent ramble? I wrote a well thought out, well sourced article.

Really, capitalism is the house of cards? Capitalism was doing fine until the entire planet went fascism and closed all businesses, without any due-process. The lockdowns did nothing for public health and only destroyed businesses, created a state of mass hysteria and allowed for massive consolidation of large companies. It destroyed diversity in the marketplace and the diversity of ideas (real diversity, not racist/sexist you need to be a different color of liberal fake diversity).

Remote work only increases the divide between high income earners and those who drive delivery trucks, farm the land, and do the honest work that keeps our world going.

If you don't see the coming collapse, I don't know what to tell you. You are proof humans now live in distinct realities.

@sariel Because of a 2nd dot com collapse? Did you read the article? Most companies are overvalued and leveraged by their venture capital funding. When the next bubble pops, we'll get another round of "too big to fail," and the VCs will cut a lot of small companies as dead weight.

Starting remote/distributed companies from scratch is incredibly more difficult than people think. It can be done, but I think a lot of the successful startups we have today would not have been so if they tried to start fully remote.

@djsumdog 1/2

I know that was mean. Kinda sorry about that. Just got me triggered with the article. Thought out and sourced, I can see. How well either of those are done is arguable. Though better than most ”well thought out and sourced” articles I see out there, I’ll give you that. I won’t bother reading it again, but if I remember correctly your conclusions, you’ll make a very good journalist if you can spew that much bullshit with as much effort to make it look like you know what you’re writing about :)

@djsumdog 2/2

I do see the coming collapse. Been waiting for it for years, as a matter of fact. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot I agree on with you, all except really two things: wfh is not unsustainable, but vice versa, serves to loan a few more years to capitalism, which, as we all should now, inherently increases the divide. More importantly, capitalism hasn’t been doing fine for decades. Misinterpreting A. Smith has lead to an economic system alike a house of cards, just waiting to collapse…

@djsumdog an economic system based on infinite growth cannot be infinitely sustainable with finite resources to support said growth. That much we can surely agree on?

Logically, that means that such a system will eventually collapse, unless otherwise replaced or rearchitected into something that can sustain itself. Yes?