This is a great way to increase mental health issues, decrease physical health and hygiene and generally make everything worse.
Maybe in the future when morbidly obese humans float around in hover beds and purchase things only from Buy-N-Large this will be "great" - but this reeks of a strange "pro COVID lockdown" narrative I've been seeing lately.
Earlier this year she attacked the Away CEO Steph Korey, she then spun Balaji's tweet that used Taylor's own words with a misleading crop to play victim:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-July-2020-Twitter-spat-bet...
She defends Tiktok and the CCP out of ignorance because she prefers writing everything as anti-facebook, anti-US tech (this was a similar twitter thing a couple months ago, but there's no quora summary).
Recently she was tweeting NIMBY style things about new housing ruining the character of the neighborhood and blaming tech for wanting more housing.
Everything she writes starts with a massive anti-tech motivated reasoning bias and then crafts a story around it. I think she also defended recode here, but I'm not 100% sure (I've since blocked her on Twitter): https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-for-the-recode-handsha...
I wouldn't put much thought into her articles, she's the main person that comes to mind when I think of the decline of the NYT.
The last paragraph basically claims "it's not working from bed that's bad, it's the stigma against working from bed that's bad!"
Along with phrases like "the new normal" and such. There does seem to be a push to keep people from wanting and expecting to go back to the real normal anytime soon.
Though who stands to gain from this alternate reality? It would seem the liberal left wants to normalize it (even post-vaccine), but I don't understand why.
The far-left folks are pro lockdown but also want to help the underprivileged. No one is hurt worse by lockdowns. They want to defund the police, and yet by now even the hardened ideologue can admit that less police is maybe not a great plan. The left is anti-authoritarian but engages in almost textbook authoritarian behavior. (Cancel culture, democratic governors having emergency powers for 9+ months now etc etc) They hate capitalism but enjoy the byproducts (my most socialist friends can't get enough of Amazon prime - the irony is completely lost on them).
There is just no way to reconcile the platform. It is completely incoherent.
Economic trouble and poverty help the left by making them the savior upon whom everyone is dependent. After all, it was the Great Depression that gave FDR’s New Deal a free pass in the first place — and that really was the beginning of the modern Democratic Party’s economic platform.
They want people to be poor. That’s how they get the majority of their votes.
As to "defunding police", I like to rephrase it as "fund people, not police" - use those budgets to give people help before they get to the point where the police get involved, rather than having next to no safety net and a bunch of cops itching to use all the military hardware they've got.
There you go, some coherence. Have a nice day.
I personally think the author of this article is trying to give people clinical depression. But I'm having trouble figuring out how that fits into their leftist agenda. Maybe it's because leftists are themselves lazy and unmotivated, and they want to feel better about themselves by sabotaging others? But wouldn't they see that it's unfair to hurt other people just because of their own inadequacies?
I don't know, what do you think? I can't figure it out.
To be precise, they are in the top four panels, not the bottom five.