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> In my opinion, a decentralized, remote workforce is the future of the digital economy.

This is based on the wonky assumption that this:

> There will always be people who abuse the system, abuse your trust and try to game the mechanics for their benefit. […] A remote gig is not a good fit for these kinds of people.

are just some extreme outliers.

However, we were just yesterday having a discussion on HN about „how to work two or more remote jobs at the same time and game the system“

Is a remote-first economy perhaps a system fundamentally at odds with human instincts?

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> Is a remote-first economy perhaps a system fundamentally at odds with human instincts?

Seems like office-first, 9 to 5 economy is at odds with human instincts, if you have to physically keep humans from "gaming the system".

In that sense, taxation is against human instincts, if you have to force people to contribute to welfare payments.

And yet we still do it.

Taxes pay for far more than “welfare payments” unless you expand your definition of “welfare” to include the general welfare (functioning roads etc).

Also, remote just doesn't work for some people. This should be decided on a per-company basis

And being in the office doesn't work well for others. Those people have had (practically) no choice in the matter for all of time.

Perhaps it's okay to try a little of the opposite scenario and see how it plays out.

Sure, I am a great advocate of remote work and that's how I work and worked (mostly).

We just need to recognize that it's not for everybody

All but the smallest companies were already remote by having multiple offices.

Companies that had problems to grow out of that early phase struggled in the past and will struggle with that in times of remote work. The only thing that remote work changes is to move that problem more to the beginning of a companies lifecycle. This should be seen as a chance and not a problem.

Remote doesn't really refer to the geography, but the asynchronous workflow. In the manner, many of those companies are far from remote.

A lot of good would come from being able to personality search companies, especially by career level.

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