And the companies are controlled by venture capitalists, who are smart and distribute their investments. So they have interests in various companies, including the real estate companies.
Is this why I don’t go to sleep early?
But you can rotate the phone such that the mic is still in front of your mouth and the top of the phone over your ear, without being forced to use the speaker to be able to hear.
Warning: conspiracy theory incoming. Imagine you are an investor, one of those big guns that are on top of a few big companies. You have a lot of money, but because you’re smart you don’t invest it all in tech companies. Some of it goes to, let’s say, real estate. Now imagine what would happen to that money if companies no longer needed offices, those huge and expensive offices… Also, you invest in an overseas company. There’s lots of profit there because you pay cheap to your employees. Now those employees can start working directly to US companies for cheaper than in US, but still more than is paid in that country. Now if want people working for you, then you need to pay more than these remote workers receive. There goes your extra profit And the way this happened really shows that companies were really hoping to change the way of working after COVID, but someone didn’t allow that.
We need an AI with all human knowledge, or various with different specializations. But those AIs must not be in the hands of companies.
And “household income” definition also changed: at the time the most common was that only the man of the household was working. So I’d say we are down to a quarter of what was earned then.