> I would also never pay any money to maintain a computer to do work for a company.

But you would maintain a car to [do] work for a company. I'm going to have to take my three hours a day that I have working remote, more if you include prep time to even leave the house, and spend that on bumper to bumper traffic baby!

I don’t own car.

VM or hot swapping a drive works fine.

> I would also never pay any money to maintain a computer to do work for a company.

Yet you’re seemingly happy to shell out your own time and money to pay for a train trip when it rains. I doubt your arguments here.

My employer pays for transit. They didn’t buy my umbrella though, so you got me there

> I value my commute tremendously. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day.

My guess is that you either don’t live in the US or live in one of the small handful of cities that have decent public transportation.

Sitting in SoCal traffic for an hour both ways every day will certainly change your mind about commutes.

And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle :) Indeed, if my situation were totally different I would feel differently about it. That’s why I made my situation the way it is.