If you’re not local to the company and they are new to hiring in your area that’s not remote work here to stay, that’s fulfilling a need at a point in time.
Why would the base their HQ in a tax heavy state like California, specifically the Bay Area and build multibillion dollar office buildings? Access to UC Berkeley and Stanford has historically been the answer.
In a few years kids who grew up on zoom looking to go to the office and have the communal experience that escaped them. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and the bank always owns the land on either side of said fence.
All the companies meeting their earnings are back (Msft, Tesla, Apple… curious to see what FB does, but I think Elon is going to want asses in seats so to speak). I can see the articles being written now.
Shoutout to motorcycles! I share a car with my wife, but last year finally got a motorcycle. It's such a joy to have a manual transmission vehicle again, and on a bike you really form a relationship with the power response and physics of the machine.
Hardly bizarre, _most_ of the comforts we enjoy are subsidized with extensive human exploitation. I think it's completely consistent with the rest of our habits.
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