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US, yes, and I'm in a particularly bad region for tech, so I'm searching across multiple states and also across the country. I'm currently employed as a remote worker and it's killing me. It gives me very few opportunities to network. I did high school online and graduated college online due to the pandemic, so my network is already super suffering as it is.

Junior engineer. Hundreds of applications across 3 months. Nothing but silence and automated rejections. It's got me feeling so down that I'm just going to leave the private sector for military. Get some training, have some job security, benefits, and hopefully wait out the horrible market.

And in the ideal world, that's fine, but again- hopelessly naive in the real world. Taken to the extreme, why should we not record all audio? And if someone receives an urgent phone call from home, something extremely personal, should that stay in the company's records? No, for fear that the company will use their power disparity to exert undue control over the employee's life from them attending to the actually important matters in their life. That's why privacy matters.

Privacy matters at work because the interests of the employee and the employer are in tension. Do you expect an employee to leave every personal item out of work? Should employees expect to not speak of their personal lives, or to have artifacts of their personal life leak into the workplace? To say that the boundary should be absolute is hopelessly naive. Privacy matters because it is a leaky barrier, and the employer should not be capable of retaining personal information they can use to emotionally extort or legally strong-arm their employee when it's useful for them.

I don't consider "there is value in not always having a point, but meandering" to be itself a point, mainly because you don't give a reason to suppose that that is the case or a reasonable case to consider. It seems itself to be rather meandering, circling a value and a raison d'etre without specifying either. It's the specification that makes it worth considering, as adults do know.

25 year odl here, I prefer phone calls as my primary method of communication, and often place calls as my first method of contact with previously-uncontacted entities. Please check your assumptions :)

That's pretty sickening, I hope you keep away from polite society for the rest of our sakes, and hopefully you won't have too much longer to pursue your bucket list.

So you're deadset on not making a point

I'm technically self employed because I got into a toxic contractorship as my first gig, when I didn't have the knowledge to avoid getting taken advantage of. But it's really just a software shop refusing to hire employees and using "contractors" for everything (we're actually employees)

Sometimes enlightenment is about knowing when to be impolite.

Do you have substantive critique? Because the fellow you're responding to is giving substance to his criticism, the parent comment is giving substance, the article is giving substance, and whether GEB has substance is apparently up for debate. If the person you're replying to is deadset on proving the parent right, you are dead set on proving nothing. Please tell us what you disagree with, and the particulars of why, or maybe leave the discussion to the adults.

There's also probably plenty of space if we force these institutions to pay taxes on their land usage ;p

Or let people retain the housing they want and tax the encroaching multibillion dollar institutions lmao

"Can" or "can't"?