It figures that so many of the "enlightened businessmen" types claim to love efficiency and productivity. Yet they almost all blatantly ignore how remote work actually will make their businesses more efficient and productive (and therefore make the Line Go Up, which is their religion).
Goes to show they care more about keeping the serfs in their place and holding dominion that it will even take precedent over their Almighty Profit.
In the phrase "cutting the federal government is an age-old goal of conservatives", you could easily substitute gutting for cutting and be even closer to the reality.
Great post Julia! It's one of your best. Ending remote work is about exerting control over workers. Spreading these tales of "people working from the Bahamas" is the new welfare queens riding their Cadillacs and taking advantage of the system. It's the same old crap.
In the UK when the Conservative Government was trying to push people back into the office, they were at least open about the fact it was 'for the sake of the economy' because people are more likely to buy coffee and food if they commute. Obviously I disagree with this, but at least it was clear they they believed 'the economy' was more import than human lives and health. And yet there was very little push back, and now we have a Labour government trying to push disabled people into work by cutting their benefits, rather than focusing on making work accessible (because Covid has led to a massive increase in chronically ill and disabled people which they attribute to 'laziness').
The point that Julia is making is, I think that the left's failure to fight against the current infinite Covid infection policy leads to a failure in all sorts of other areas too. The right immediately went into battle over Covid (it's just a cold, mitigation worse than disease, infection boosts immunity and other idiocies). The left, with a few notable exceptions, never mobilised it's forces.
It figures that so many of the "enlightened businessmen" types claim to love efficiency and productivity. Yet they almost all blatantly ignore how remote work actually will make their businesses more efficient and productive (and therefore make the Line Go Up, which is their religion).
Goes to show they care more about keeping the serfs in their place and holding dominion that it will even take precedent over their Almighty Profit.
In the phrase "cutting the federal government is an age-old goal of conservatives", you could easily substitute gutting for cutting and be even closer to the reality.
Great post Julia! It's one of your best. Ending remote work is about exerting control over workers. Spreading these tales of "people working from the Bahamas" is the new welfare queens riding their Cadillacs and taking advantage of the system. It's the same old crap.
In the UK when the Conservative Government was trying to push people back into the office, they were at least open about the fact it was 'for the sake of the economy' because people are more likely to buy coffee and food if they commute. Obviously I disagree with this, but at least it was clear they they believed 'the economy' was more import than human lives and health. And yet there was very little push back, and now we have a Labour government trying to push disabled people into work by cutting their benefits, rather than focusing on making work accessible (because Covid has led to a massive increase in chronically ill and disabled people which they attribute to 'laziness').
You have failed to understand the simple point that laziness is a side effect of Covid infection ;-)
All true, Julia. Many thanks, and best of health to you and us all.
I subscribed based on the strength of this post. I'm looking forward to much more insightful comment in the year ahead.
Thanks, Julia, for another excellent piece!
The point that Julia is making is, I think that the left's failure to fight against the current infinite Covid infection policy leads to a failure in all sorts of other areas too. The right immediately went into battle over Covid (it's just a cold, mitigation worse than disease, infection boosts immunity and other idiocies). The left, with a few notable exceptions, never mobilised it's forces.