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I chose not to become a digital nomad

6 pointsby harijoeover 6 years ago

2 comments

neilwilsonover 6 years ago
Quote from Beveridge&#x27;s &quot;Full Employment in a Free Society&quot;, 1944<p>&quot;A Liverpool man, when told by an [employment] officer that he had spent most of his working life in jobs away from his home, which he could visit only on holidays, exclaimed, &quot;Good God! What kind of a home did you have, then?&quot; This incident may serve to illustrate the folly of expecting a common-form social outlook among persons with entirely dissimilar experiences and traditions. Middle-class people, trained for the professions, expect to have to follow the job, wherever it may take them. The same hold good only to a limited extent among the working-class people&quot;<p>Somewheres vs Anywheres. It&#x27;s an old dichotomy.
k__over 6 years ago
Working remote frees much time, even if you aren&#x27;t a nomad.<p>It took me 30minutes to get to work and 30minutes back, so I had five hours a week of unpaid labor.<p>That&#x27;s half a week in a month and one month a year if I don&#x27;t count the holidays.<p>One month a year that I can do something different now...