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This is a common set-up: two parents out of the house 10 hours a day, scrambling to provide care for their own children. We make it work because we have to.[/quote]
And what benefit is there to society in making more people have to deal with this?[/quote]

So your question (why should I have to suffer like you, essentially) comes across as a bit… privileged to those of us who do essential in-person jobs.

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Nice try. Answer the question. What benefit is there to society in making other people’s lives worse?[/quote]

You mean: What if we are all as self-serving as you?

Who is going to teach your children? Who is going to provide after-school activities and childcare for you? Who is going to be at the urgent care when you or your child get sick?

See, it’s really tiresome for those of us who work for the betterment of society (which often has to be done in person) to hear the woe-is-me from somebody who may have to experience a bit of what we do. It’s hard to feel sympathy when your argument is “well, you’re suffering, but thankfully I don’t have to!”[/quote]

Nailed it.[/quote]

Many of us working for the government are also working for the betterment of society. I work on matters that directly matter to people across this country on an individual level.

I completely understand that in the new world of a lot of remote work, some jobs like nursing and teaching aren’t amenable to it. Personally, I think those jobs should be more well compensated, both because they always should have been given their importance to society, and because there needs to be a way to make them attractive since they can’t be done remotely.

But that has no bearing on my job, on the other hand, which involves emails and calls all day with people on different physical locations, with only some overlap with people who are at my office in DC. So, yes, in an era of Zoom and Teams it seems quite silly to pollute the environment, add my car to the traffic, cost me 2000$ a year to park and take 2 hours of my day just to sit in an office and do the same emails and Teams calls 5x a week (I do go in 2x a week and I’m fine with that for office morale, getting to know people…it’s more about creating some relationships than anything work related. If anything, I just make your commute harder by adding to the traffic. [/quote]

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