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The flip side of Soviet “everyone must work” inefficiency was the prediction of American economists that we’d have so little work to do thanks to automation that our biggest problem would be filling our free time.
Instead we found more and more work to do, and now work even longer hours. And it’s because people didn’t want to do the hard work of figuring out a new way to run society and just stuck with what they knew.
We see the same thing happening with remote work. It causes some problems, yes, but it’s way better for a lot of reasons. But instead of moving forward and solving those problems organizations are just insisting on doing things the traditional way.
And it’s really sad how many people in this thread can’t see that they’re doing the same thing.
If you're interested on a brief analysis of the "Soviet inefficiency" you may be interested in reading my previous comment in this thread
Nah
Fair enough, but then maybe consider not discussing things you don't care learning about as factual
I was talking about the stupid capitalists who insist on people working though, not the stupid communists who insist on people working.
And also throw them into gulags.