Absolutely. I’ve been working from home for ~3 years and I’ll never go back. I have so much more time for myself (and also, no one is annoying me with smalltalk or stupid questions).

If you do the math, its just horrible. If you have one hour to work, its 2 hours every day just getting to and back from work, which is 10 hours per week.

So you are spending more than an entire work day every week in traffic! Every year, you are spending 41 full working days in traffic!!

Isnt that just insane? If you are working from home, you have 10 hours of free time every week. The value of that is insane. You could go to gym, spend time with family, learn how to cook, whatever. Its a lot of time.

On a related note, you should get off big tech social media because that will suck up so much time you could use to improve yourself instead.

When they started pushing for $15 federal minimum, it should have been $50.

Today, it should be about $150.

At $150/hr, you could afford to buy a an average home with a years pay.

People don’t realize how insanely bad it’s been getting.

I disagree that we should be paid triple to travel. We should just be paid appropriately. That’s all.

There is a study that showed workers don’t mind commuting so long as the route is full of greenery and nature. That explains a lot because in my hometown, I was happy enough to commute in public transport and people are nice enough that you can chat with them. Then I moved to a bigger city, which is a concrete jungle. I hate the commute. And mind you, the public transport in my home town is about ten to twenty minutes more depending on the traffic, but I didn’t mind for some reason. Then, after moving to a bigger city, travelling only for one hour feels like a long trek.

Less congestion for people that do need to travel.

Less pollution.

More free time.

Cheaper housing because we won’t all need to be clustered in the places with decent paying jobs.

But no, fuck it all because the mega rich might have to make do with very slightly less.