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Does anyone else feel like this mostly undermines the entire point of "tech" and "the web"?

What the hell is the point of having a hyper connected, super charged by AI world, when ultimately it boils down to having to "go to an office"?

I honestly feel like 95% of tech is smoke and mirrors, the people who own "tech" know this so they end up just asking people to come back to work to help them sell advertisements, which seems like the only way we know how to make money from all this "innovation".

It's really quite mad.




Great point. For at least the last three decades, everything in tech is about "connectivity", "mobility", "cyberspace" and recently "telepresence" and "metaverse". And yet, the solution they use for themselves an 18th century invention: the office building.


it's about control


What control would one gain over someone by being in the office?

I work for a remote, I can get fired if I'm not performing just like anyone else.




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