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You don't need every person in the household to work remotely, just enough to be able to collectively handle the housework. You're more likely to cross that threshold with six adults than with two.

Indeed. It is a considerable oddity how very material the lives of us wealthy knowledge workers are, yet how immaterial our labor.

> It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.

Until your toilet gets clogged.

Somewhat similar to climate crisis. If we shut off AC's globally for two days, we'd figure out the solution.

Can you clarify?

Here in France, a wealthy industrialized nation, most houses and buildings (even those of rich people) don't have AC. In my experience, this is typical of most of Europe.

Then again, we have figured out the solution to the climate crisis, it's nuclear power

It will work for a lot of people, and further the divide we have going on now :D.