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Charlie Munger: We are never going back to a five-day work week in the office

by cnst on 2/21/22, 3:09 PM with 23 comments

• by francisofascii on 2/21/22, 4:56 PM

  "It’s amazing the percentage of people in computer science that don’t want to be in the office for a normal life," - yes, but not amazing

  "I don’t think we needed all these goddamn meetings and airplane flights." - yep

  "simpler, cheaper, and more efficient," - yeah

  "if your job in life is to get on the telephone and talk to other engineers around the world to solve problems, why do you have to do it from an office" - right

  "it could be a good thing that people are going to commute less" - not could be, will be

• by djohnston on 2/21/22, 5:35 PM

  Yep, going to be interesting watching NYC and SF bleed workers despite their mayors begging leaders to force their employees to return.

• by Clubber on 2/21/22, 5:39 PM

  >What makes capitalism work is the fact that if you’re an able-bodied young person, if you refuse to work, you suffer a fair amount of agony, and because of that agony, the whole economic system works."

  So if you don't work, you suffer agony (pain). What does that sound like?

• by rightbyte on 2/21/22, 7:08 PM

  I changed job from 1h by train or 50 min by car door to door, to 5 min by car or 15 min by bike. Also I got a private office instead of open office.

  I personally see no benefit from WFH anymore, from being the best work related change thing ever due to Covid.

• by coreycoto on 2/22/22, 8:16 AM

  I have become less impressed with Charlie Munger as time goes by. He has had a lot of financial success. However, lately in his old age he is sounding more and more like a jerk and tone-deaf.

  > “What makes capitalism work is the fact that if you’re an able-bodied young person, if you refuse to work, you suffer a fair amount of agony, and because of that agony, the whole economic system works,” he said, adding effective, prospering economies have traditionally imposed hardship on young people who don’t want to work.

  > “You take away that hardship and say ‘you can stay home and get more than if you come in to work,’ that’s quite disruptive to an economic system like ours,” Munger added. “The next time we do this, I don’t think we ought to be so liberal.”

  Also this: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/business/ucsb-munger-hall/ind...

• by theodric on 2/22/22, 12:15 AM

  Meanwhile, my employer: "The hell you say."

• by stuaxo on 2/21/22, 6:48 PM

  This quote at the end - “You take away that hardship and say ‘you can stay home and get more than if you come in to work,’ that’s quite disruptive to an economic system like ours,” Munger added. “The next time we do this, I don’t think we ought to be so liberal.”

  Wow - it wasn't about "being liberal", there IS still a global pandemic on.