If you're going to add comments to this thread, can you please engage with the specifics of the article?
If you're going to add comments to this thread, can you please engage with the specifics of the article?
Remote work puts downward pressure on the highest salaries [think globalisation but on a smaller scale — poor countries are main beneficiaries of globalisation]. People with a low amount of opportunities will have more opportunities [upward pressure] and the highest earners will need to compete with higher number of people [downward pressure].
It literally decreases inequality.
The article points out that there is a difference in earnings and higher-earning jobs can be done remotely more often, which is not that valuable insight itself but it is meaningless in the context of inequality. People that have jobs that can't be done remotely are 'constant' in this equation — their situation won't change meaningfully.
You can argue that inequality stemming from that doesn't actually matter, because nobody is worse off - but that's a different argument from whether remote work creates inequality or not.
I have a personal, sad and rather extreme theory — anything that can be done remotely will be commoditized. But that's another story.