commercial sites are free because they sell your data
fedi is free because the servers are running on last year’s gaming rig and repurposed smart ovens
It's kind of telling that the Billet Labs fiasco produced a way bigger backlash than the Madison thing.
Maybe because it came on the coattails of an already established controversy.. but the vibes in the YT comments are very different. Mostly ranging from SYMPATHETIC to LTT, to "she's hysterical", "she's lying", "go woke go broke" (???), "sexual harassment at work is perfectly normal", etc.
And no, I'm not gonna blur the names bc the comments are publicly available anyway.
stop making the conversation about work-at-home about productivity
eliminating non-essential worker commutes means less fossil fuels wasted
remote policies increase access for disabled people, especially with chronic illness that flares
LGBT folks and PoC experience less bigotry and it's easier to report bigotry when they do
do some people want hybrid? do some people want on-site? sure
but stop pretending the discussion was about productivity or what employees want
it's about real estate portfolios
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