Thursday, April 23, 2020

Amazing What You Can Accomplish by Limiting Choices

All of this enforced working at home will have a huge impact. It is completely culturally acceptable to work at home, where even three months people would have winced at that. [More]
So this is also an experiment in mass behavior modification?

And when a critical mass says "Enough"?

[Via Michael G]

2 comments:

Backwoods Engineer said...

I am not hopeful. It seems that >70% of the population are mere sheep that will go along with ANYTHING the media tells them to do, giving up every single birthright, as long as they have food, shelter, beer/alcohol/pot, porn, sportsball, and a pot to pee in. I've never been more sad for my country.

Henry said...

I have to weigh in on the other side here. The major barrier to working at home in many professional and technical positions has always primarily been corporate management. Which is ridiculous, since any job they have already shown they are willing to fob off on some anonymous face in India, the Ukraine, or (shudder) China should be as easily and competently accomplished by an American working at home, and frankly, I'd rather see it be so. I think this was a welcome wake-up call to hidebound managers who (unlike those who run location-dependent industries like food service, construction, shelf-stocking, and so on) were in a position of having the option to choose between closing their businesses and distributing them, and had their eyes opened.