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Remote work/ Work From Home is obviously better for work-life balance, but capitalism is going to use this to drive wages down for office jobs as soon as they come to terms with this as the new normal. All excess value will be extracted to capital, and away from labor, unless fought.

Think about it. Right now, capitalists are limited with who the can hire, unless they do cross-country recruiting and often offer to pay moving expenses. That limits the pool of available workers, creating scarcity and driving the value of that labor up. But companies are not going to be locked to a single area anymore for recruiting. They'll be able to seek workers everywhere. Not just locally. That means a firm in California can hire workers from other states with super low cost of living, paying less than they are now (but more than the local companies can) for the same labor. All that extra? Stolen from the workers, given to the capitalists. And that's before discussing outsourcing these jobs for pennies. It seems good now because it's new, and capitalists are resistant to change. They want their good old profit workhorses to keep producing money forever. But once they…


Think about it. Right now, capitalists are limited with who the can hire, unless they do cross-country recruiting and often offer to pay moving expenses.

That limits the pool of available workers, creating scarcity and driving the value of that labor up.

But companies are not going to be locked to a single area anymore for recruiting. They'll be able to seek workers everywhere. Not just locally.

That means a firm in California can hire workers from other states with super low cost of living, paying less than they are now (but more than the local companies can) for the same labor. All that extra? Stolen from the workers, given to the capitalists.

And that's before discussing outsourcing these jobs for pennies.

It seems good now because it's new, and capitalists are resistant to change. They want their good old profit workhorses to keep producing money forever. But once they see the writing on the wall, they'll seek to optimize. And wages will go through the floor once middle-class office jobs are competing with the world for job slots.

Netflix was another great example. Streaming? At an affordable cost? With all the shows you want?

It was new. Capitalists hadn't optimized profiteering off of it yet. Old horses were resistant to change, but the new way of doing things wins out eventually. Now the streaming landscape is a complicated mess, barely better than cable was, and even netflix is looking to air ads now.

Capitalism corrupts everything. They're coming for WFH next and will squeeze it dry of any extra available value inside of 20 years, mark my words.

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