I read their history, and I don’t know what you mean with this comment. Could you link to specific examples? I don’t know them, but their comments seem well reasoned.
Allowing price gouging encourages speculative hoarding which makes markets less stable and less fair. For essential items this is very undesirable for almost everyone.
using many apps with sound enabled is shocking after long periods of app silence. Social media apps sound like slot machines! So much pavlovian conditioning... Not sure how all that is still legal.
They have forebearance of 180 days and you can extend another 180. But this will unwind very badly because it's still due yet the renters and homeowners won't be in a position to pay lump sums. From a Planet Money episode, essentially the mortgage servicers will go bankrupt as they are the only ones that can't defer payments in the flow. You have renters, landlords, banks, mortgage servicers, investors and the federal government guarantees a lot of mortgages. It seems most plausible that homeowners who don't pay will end up with longer mortgages versus a balloon payment they won't be able to handle.
The current proposal in Congress reimburses landlords and mortgage holders with taxpayer money subject to stipulations. This proposal is actually much cheaper than the UBI esque one.
Those issues you described can be resolved with $300 in retail purchases: noise canceling headphones, a wifi router, and an Ikea style desk. Add $100 for a decent office chair. It is not an unreasonable amount of money in most of the USA.
"Not an unreasonable amount" various heavily, not just from location to location, but from person to person and circumstance to circumstance. With all the other barriers to employment in skilled disciplines, should it now be a requirement for employment that you have enough liquid cash to pay for setting up your own office?
> should it now be a requirement for employment that you have enough liquid cash to pay for setting up your own office?
Any firm worth working for will have this as either a stipend, or otherwise handled as part of hiring remote workers. Any one that doesn't make it easy and cheap to be comfortable and productive remotely will miss out on talent because of that.
>> Any firm worth working for will have this as either a stipend, or otherwise handled as part of hiring remote workers.
This is just not true. I have never worked for a colocated company that pays for you to set up your home office. Most do not hire remote works either so there is no predefined (and budgeted) setup
We'll also see if in the face of double-digit unemployment (don't think that's going to resolve itself the minute we get back to work) companies that don't have these discretionary benefits loose out on talent...