confounded

At least according to the Meta employees in the article, people are terrified of voting with their feet, because of the current job market.

As a result, many are communing hours a day, to sit on zoom calls. Wasting their valuable time on earth for the sake of a manager's dictat.

Things are good. But they can always be better :)

Management pretty often do not have the best ideas, and often the people doing the work know how best to do it.

Out of interest, do you use Emacs as an alternative to Jupyter for interactive work (examining plots etc.)?

If so, which modes and packages do you use?

They are ruled by an avowedly Marxist (state-capitalist) government, who have lifted hundreds of millions from abject poverty, in the largest economic miracle of our lifetimes.

I'm not saying it was pristine. But you make an extremely poor case against Marx, or the negative effects of US imperialism on the global poor.

The whole idea relies on a hierarchy of power so unnerving it's the basis of folklore across human cultures.

Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss.

There are likely to be supply/demand issues in a society with where citizens have free access to each others blood for recreational purposes.

You should write to to the author, to scold them directly!

Ah, famously easy to measure knowledge worker productivity!

Out of interest, what kind of work do you do, on Linux, on a laptop, in a swimming pool?

Where will you go?

That might be a different type of S&M team

After spending more time and money than on fancy keyboards than I'd like to admit, two of these side by side (an informal 'split' keyboard) is by far the easiest on my wrists and shoulder blades.

Because managers are evaluated on their ability to grow teams and increase their scope. Organizations intrinsically "want" to hire.

What's unusual about the last 20 years is that there's been so much available capital to fund tech companies doing just that.

The question is, after this superb yak shaving, did you actually buy a house?