Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by skwb on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:07PM
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Forgive me if I get the citation wrong, but I believe I remember listening to Ezra Klein talking how for much of the 40s/50s/60s, communities were organized by churches and community institutions. I would easily add military service to this as well.
If you were a doctor, you would still know your community fairly well; whether they be a farmer or another blue collar worker. As we've replaced the prominence of community based institutions such as churches with elite institutions (primarily colleges and workplaces), we've isolated lots of people who aren't able to participate in these communities (due to many inequalities). Obviously these previous community institutions had major flaws (racism/sexism), but they still provided a shared experience that makes a diverse and broad social group easier.
Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by chockablock on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:33PM
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This observation has been around for a while and seems important to me. Robert Putnam’s book 2000 Bowling Alone is a famous example.
Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by smithza on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:02PM
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This is a very important comment. The comment made too many assumptions about the "nuclear family" ideal for many people. Sometimes work relationships are the ONLY relationship for some people.
There's practical reasons for that. Socialization centered at school transitions easily to socialization centered at work. Also, probably for the worse, many people have few connections to communities independent of work/school. Creating those connections can be difficult, and many of the modern solutions to this problem are aren't very good (e.g. various relationship-shopping apps like "online dating").