Apple Delays Plan to Have Staff in Office Three Days a Week

Honestly, I had really put my faith in Humanity prioritizing it's needs after what we collectively had to endure during COVID. People spent time with their thoughts and deepest feelings and I had felt we had maybe reached a certain critical mass in understanding just how myopic our systems have been.

They are blatantly wasteful, and unfulfilling and leave us with a Society where we are left more empty and hallow the more we climb it's proverbial latter. It appeared to me that people were prepared to challenge the status quo.

Unfortunately, as with most things, it was temporary; I still remain optimistic that we can can turn the tide of business as usual, but it will require an immense amount of short term pain as a result.

> A significant number of management is made up of people who dream of a life where they control other people. Zoom life is good for productivity but that is not what rank and file management wants.

This is perhaps the worst part about the Human condition, had I not witnessed it myself I would probably be in disbelief, but it's true: we really have a problem with sociopaths who desire nothing more than to lord over someone in order to feel superior. Oddly enough, many of those people seek political office and once they attain it will find every possible way to make themselves exempt from the rules they impose on others.

As a species we must see these people for the existential threat that they are, nothing short of that will ever correct this perverse system that benefits them.

If those are your rebuttals, they certainly aren't sufficient: first, people choosing to use X/Y form of energy to make their meals is a personal choice and likely done based on an optimal time preference: most people I know in tech don't even cook, they order out 90% of the time and only have cereal or basic lunch stuff in their homes.

Second, cooling/heating could be done in any number of ways for all I know most Apple workers have solar panels, it's unlikely but it is a possibility, or they might not even use either since the Mountain View has rather temperate weather either way.

If you are relying on me to concede that remote work is better for the environment based on such vapid criteria, you are sadly mistaken: the kitchens in most places have walk-ins and blast freezers that run 24/7, ovens and and ranges that are at full blast etc... in anticipation of cooking those meals for all of those employees.

I can assure from personal experience you their is nothing efficient about running a commercial sized kitchen, and everything is always breaking and requires constant maintenance.

Just offsetting the commutes from all over the NorCal would be reduction in GHG that it's worth keeping, their is no real need for it if efficiency has not been lost.