I’m not doing a bit here. I’m normally very anti-conspiratorial and suspect conspiracy types of crediting their boogeymen with way too much power and intelligence. But this is a special case. Commercial real estate is highly concentrated and financialized. Smells like a rat here.
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You don’t need secret sex parties by Eyes Wide Shut elites for thus. You just need an investor nudging an editor here, an editor commissioning a Gladwell there, an op-ed section that’s a crony club. A politician with a board seat somewhere and a pro-small-biz campaign…
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Older Gen X and Boomers managers have also gotten lazy managing for decades a certain way and don’t want to change or give up corner offices, holding court, etc. Even without a hard financial stake in real estate, it’s more convenient to side with them than learn new skills
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Damn. Maybe I should try to buy an office property instead of a house. Though I doubt my mortgage approval will carry over 😬
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Neat!
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Apparently there’s this metric tracking it from keyfob usage
. kastle.com/safety-wellnes
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Exhibit C. Notable that the keynoter set is at the forefront. They don’t have much of a career without speaker circuit economy on top of office economy. What do you want to bet the headliner keynote crowd is 95% against WFH? Hard to command $$$ speaking fees for virtual keynotes.
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I feel this is becoming a real movement now
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An actual preference cascade among elites does seem rather unlikely here. At least as a primary driver. Those tend to be simpler. There’s a degree of coordination here. Preference cascade might be amplifying it. twitter.com/scrivenix/stat
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Now how can I profit from this? 🤔
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Heh no org with the investigative resources to poke at this has the incentives to do so. At most a subreddit might nerd out over it. Someone go start r/returntoworkconspiracy
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They got to him, he’s one of them now 💀 🤣
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I think WFH is largely what’s killing the labor participation rate. Many discovered they’d been lying to themselves that their work was their “passion.” Some quit, others stay but fake-the-funk & are difficult to catch slacking.





