gaht dangit

Currently the lease on a (just barely—$24,100) sub-$25k Corolla with $3k down for 39 months is $269/month direct from Toyota.

The same car financed for 60month/4.99%APR and 3k down would have a payment of $384.

All of that will be plus your local taxes and any fees of course …

Those numbers and offers are all direct from Toyota (and are going to be credit dependent of course).

It can be both.

Hell I’d take 3 days a week as opposed to the INSULTING 26 days a year my company “graciously” provides us.

I don’t talk to anyone in the office, no one uses the conference rooms, half my team is on the other side of the country, and now they’re trying to force us to take an hour lunch, stealing even more of our time.

Yeah i hate management consultants for the myopic views and incredibly damaging decisions

My state is very explicit about needing toll money, parking money, lunch money, etc from downtown workers. I have to work in person, as does my husband, but I'm all for remote work if people get their jobs done

I don’t think AI would feel dystopian if we didn’t have corruption in our government. “By the people, for the people” isn’t where it’s at. We need to push getting money out of politics. Campaign finance reform, government leaders shouldn’t be able to own individual stocks, create a generous pension for congress that gets taken away if they start getting money from the private sector at any time in their life.

As Good as a roomba vacuums? No thanks, get back to me when AI isn't just 10x hyped above its actual capabilities.

Businesses do not do anything without a profit motive. Government can make all the calls they want but it's the risk of devaluing real estate that is driving the return to work.

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Not saying OP did any math of value, but they did state a lease vs the math you did for financing (“auto loan”), so you aren’t exactly comparing apples to apples here …

Currently the lease on a (just barely—$24,100) sub-$25k Corolla with $3k down for 39 months is $269/month direct from Toyota.

The same car financed for 60month/4.99%APR and 3k down would have a payment of $384.

All of that will be plus your local taxes and any fees of course …

Those numbers and offers are all direct from Toyota (and are going to be credit dependent of course).

I’m not sure I’m ready to fly in a biodegradable airplane.

Their minority report software will take care of you first. I'm pretty sure that's what their end goal is.

Thank you!! Every time someone pulls this card I want to pull my hair out.

Oh you made record profits during the year everyone made record profits? Awesome. Oh people were trapped inside and had to use your product? Not correlation at all.

Wait, the US fed reserve and government put ten trillion dollars into the economy in a year. Nah that can’t be it, it’s because people worked in shorts.

Go ahead and contact Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Tim Cook, Goldman Sachs, Robert, Mercer, etc., etc., and propose to them that they take a large portion of their business profits, and just simply give them to people who have no jobs.

Let me know how that works out for you.

They don’t care. They’ve never cared.

My first thought at the beginning of the pandemic was, what will happen with all the now no longer ever needed downtown office spaces? What will happen to those leases and property owners?

Never did I think, nothing will happen, they won’t let that entire industry fail even if it’s no longer necessary

Sounds great but this is way early and only hypothetical- not to mention scaling this would be difficult- from the article itself

> Of course, there’s still a long way to go before mushrooms can replace plastic

We usually mine metals because we need them for something, not shits ‘n‘ giggles. We are still going to need the metals but they are cheaper and we can use our money for other things.

If the world were fair and logical we’d restructure the education system to focus on teaching real life skills like diet, exercise, health & wellness, spirituality, philosophy, finances, body positivity, science, and skills/trades. You know, all the things that are essential for happiness that most of are missing.

You could get a man to do them in slightly less than a decade.

the education system doesnt have anything to do with that currently

My company responded similarly, but at the same time cut it's office space by more than half. So the reality is those that really want to be in the office and hold a position where face to face is important are in an office. Those working more behind the scenes are typically still remote.

He said that our government, the treasury, has been and did engage with our company and other major companies to get people back to get the economy going.

BITCH PLEASE that man is lying to you to not tell you why they want people back. The treasury is a joke that serves the rich, their idea of fighting inflation is laughable but they do not give a fuck if you work from home or not.

Legit, he asks where the money comes from when literally we HAVE the resources. The real question is how we get this translated into policy and overcome conservatives.

My company RTO for 3 days per week a few weeks ago.

Want to know the one meaningful hallway conversation I had with jrs?

Telling them that once they vest, the best way to get a raise is to switch companies.

We are more productive from home.