if you make over 80K/yr you're a nomad, under that you're homeless
Ironically, one of the reasons I did what this article is describing a few years back is that it's easier to live on $15/hr in South America than in the US.
Okay, I read it carefully, and for none of these people does it give a clue about what they actually do. They are "professionals", they "write work emails", have "team meetings" online, and "take client calls". This can be "exhausting sometimes", but it makes you wonder: if - like in the Parable of Saint Simon - they would all just vanish, magically, would their work at all be missed by society? I doubt it, and suspect this is the main reason they can live like nomads.
Well, if the nerd doesn't fill out a projection correctly, some giant manufacturing plant creates an extra 20,000 pounds of plastic for the garbage dump
That's the great thing about capitalism- it solves a few of the problems it creates!!!
The difference is that your mom still presumably had to teach for 6-7 hours a day and do teacher things offline. These people don't do anything all day.
Long hard hours in the racism factory, signing papers and reading emails.
You're a Nomad if your rich and white but if your Romani then you're (terribly racist things I won't repeat).
I used to have to travel for work. I hated it. Now I do the same thing for the same company but luckily it's in one area and I'm home in the evenings. The program my company uses to "pick" hotels for the duration of the job always found the worst hotels to stay at. Most jobs are either "travel all the time and never see your family/have free time" or gig economy jobs.
I did IT consulting and luckily never had to go that far, although I knew plenty who did. You just were put on the job and if they wanted you there onsite 5x a week in a city 1/2 way across the county for 6 months that’s what you did. The project I was in the same metro and I worked out of the house half of the time. The other half they would pay for a car rental just so I could go onsite, say hi to a few people, and do the same job that I was doing from home. The amount of waste just for “facetime” and to make someone higher up feel good about the fees they are paying is staggering.
I knew one person who had an apartment right in downtown but he basically didn’t live in it for a whole year. He flew out to the client Sunday nights and flew back Thursday nights (and had to still work on Friday of course lol).
