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Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by taftster on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:57PM (#36053171)
I'm not even following this, "Unnatural" ...

Work from Home - Throughout the ages of man, I would tend to believe that more work has been done at home than at any notion of modern workplace. Farming, milling, iron working, etc. have all historically been performed by small tradesmen working out of their homes. "Go to Joe's house if you want your horses shoed."

Home School - Again, I would argue that far more children throughout history are being school at home than in a western notion of traditional school. I would wager that even today, more kids are currently "at home" schooling across the globe than in a modern school.

Interest Rates - Maybe this one is a reasonable notion of "unnatural". But again, throughout all time, bartering has dominated merchant exchanges and simple currency exchanges (through precious metals). There has probably always been a notion of interest rates in all this, but what you're describing is more about the federal reserve's interest rates and fractional banking, which is quite a modern invention.

In all, I don't think anything about work from home, home schooling or making transactions with neighbors is unnatural. If anything, it's the most natural way that society has worked and existed throughout history.

Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by pishpash on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @10:35PM (#36053423)
Parent is what might be called "well socialized".
Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by jgalt212 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:05PM (#36061888)
> Farming, milling, iron working, etc. have all historically been performed by small tradesmen working out of their homes. "Go to Joe's house if you want your horses shoed."

All of this has significant IRL contact with the wider world. Modern knowledge worker WFH does not.

Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by Freedom2 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:54PM (#36053144)
Working in a separate place than your home is a recent concept - humanity has worked from home far longer than in offices or workplaces. Consider farming, or craftspeople working their trade, as well as nomadic cultures.

In what way is WFH 'unnatural'?

Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by jgalt212 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:03PM (#36061847)
because IRL you're avoiding contact with the wider world.
Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by Freedom2 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:30PM (#36062200)
Define contact. I talk to my coworkers regularly, I am able to visit and support my local community businesses where I live (rather than a large, faceless city), I am able to socialize with my local community as well.

I would avoid extrapolating your own WFH experience to others.

Re:Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over retu... by jgalt212 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @07:45PM (#36065396)
able to, but not forced to.