OK, my title may be a bit incendiary… But I’ve about had it with the recent constant parade of articles calling for “return to the office” as a cure for everything. It’s almost like the Murdoch press has a vested interest? Anyway, we’re in a cost of living crisis and we’re calling to lump everyone with higher travel, and food costs all over again. So much for work life balance. If everyone does return to their offices will the press start running fluff articles about all the suburban cafes and restaurants that are suffering now that their local post-pandemic foot traffic is stuck back in the city?
We’ve moved beyond late stage capitalism and are now in end stage, palliative capitalism.
That’s where the proletariat are simultaneously deprived of survivable income and also punished for not spending enough to keep capitalism working.
This country has barely any industry outside of sales and the land. We either sell the land, or dig it up and sell it.