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A comment on Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work.

Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by robg on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:12PM (#32112862)
The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by chromatin on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:05PM (#32113280)
It sounds nice, but there are extremely large segments that keep society functioning that don't involve knowledge work and can't be done remotely. It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by nonameiguess on Saturday July 16, 2022 @06:29AM (#32116715)
You don't need every person in the household to work remotely, just enough to be able to collectively handle the housework. You're more likely to cross that threshold with six adults than with two.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by pawsforthought on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:04PM (#32113668)
Indeed. It is a considerable oddity how very material the lives of us wealthy knowledge workers are, yet how immaterial our labor.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by Gare on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:13PM (#32113330)
> It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.

Until your toilet gets clogged.

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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by barrenko on Saturday July 16, 2022 @03:20AM (#32115917)
Somewhat similar to climate crisis. If we shut off AC's globally for two days, we'd figure out the solution.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by Georgelemental on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:38AM (#32119142)
Here in France, a wealthy industrialized nation, most houses and buildings (even those of rich people) don't have AC. In my experience, this is typical of most of Europe.

Then again, we have figured out the solution to the climate crisis, it's nuclear power

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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by 8organicbits on Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:18AM (#32117730)
Can you clarify?
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by barrenko on Saturday July 16, 2022 @03:21AM (#32115921)
It will work for a lot of people, and further the divide we have going on now :D.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by fleddr on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:27PM (#32113442)
Transmitted anywhere in milliseconds also means transmitted to a lower cost country, so be careful with this flexibility.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by ornornor on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:13AM (#32115412)
Outside of the bean counters, I’ve never heard anything good about the outcomes of any outsourcing project.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by JumpCrisscross on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:05AM (#32117248)
> I’ve never heard anything good about the outcomes of any outsourcing project

Cloud computing.

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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by ornornor on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:43AM (#32117462)
Isn’t it made by teams of EU and US engineers at amazon for the most part? These jobs stayed in the EU/US and didn’t go to sweatshops in LCOL countries.
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Re:Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work by rufus_foreman on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:16PM (#32114115)
Sounds like hell to me, I left home at 16.
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