> This is a pretty awful, irrelevant post. Remote work is bad for low income earners, because it's not available for most low income earners. Some people are doing better while others are being impacted.
I don't understand your agreement.
How exactly is remote work bad because it's not available to those working physical jobs?
I also don't understand what you mean about being "impacted" - how does people working remotely negatively affect those that don't? If remote working was to really gain traction, I can only see potential positives - I'd expect house price inflation to reduce in cities, and I'd expect overcrowded public transport in those cities to become much more comfortable.
> I also don't understand what you mean about being "impacted" - how does people working remotely negatively affect those that don't? If remote working was to really gain traction, I can only see potential positives - I'd expect house price inflation to reduce in cities, and I'd expect overcrowded public transport in those cities to become much more comfortable.
As high earners leave, you can expect investment in public services and infrastructure to go down as well. See for example how white flight to the suburbs in the mid–20th century US affected cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#United_States
I don't think there would be a mass exodus of remote workers - living in a city still brings significant benefits that appeal to a large segment of the population.
I say all this from a British/European perspective though - I understand that politics, human rights, labour laws and discrimination in the US are very different than they are here, and it's true that my comment didn't take any of that into consideration.
I edited my post out from under you, but my intent was just to clarify what I was saying, not to make your post look bad. Does this change your response?
I don't understand your agreement.
How exactly is remote work bad because it's not available to those working physical jobs?
I also don't understand what you mean about being "impacted" - how does people working remotely negatively affect those that don't? If remote working was to really gain traction, I can only see potential positives - I'd expect house price inflation to reduce in cities, and I'd expect overcrowded public transport in those cities to become much more comfortable.