• puppy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There are 4.4 million software engineers in North America. That’s excluding accountants, marketing people, designers, writers and possibly hundreds of jobs more. But oh no, let’s not get 4 million cars out of the road. Since everyone does not have the privilege to work from home, nothing else matters. This kind of bigoted thinking is why the world does not get better. And what you said word to word is how Elon Musk said when banning remote work, work that was done 100% remotely.

    And there are 7 million software developers in China, 5 million in India, 1 million in Germany. All of them perfectly capable of working from home. But oh no, why bother taking millions of cars off the road per day, if it isn’t everyone in the world? Spoken like a true micromanager or an office building owner downtown.

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      9 months ago

      Or work from home

      That is what you said. The overwhelming majority of people do not have that capability. I’m not saying that no one should work from home, and that it’s not a great goal to have people that can doing so, but your phrasing implies that everyone has that capability.