Wow, that's really something.
Personally, having spent a pandemic working fully remote I wouldn't even consider working for a company that didn't offer that as an unquestionable human right, didn't frown upon it, didn't consider it to be "a way to refresh my sense of duty" and didn't think of it as a privilege.
I'm never going back to the open landscape of hell.
I don't think things you prefer automatically get elevated to 'unquestionable human rights'.
Human Rights are special things. They aren't preferences. The more you conflate the two, the more you erode your position and the term 'human right' in general. I would urge you to stop doing that.
Very true and my point would have been made without me presenting it as such. My apologies.
I prefer to know my value and vote with my feet. No pontificating required.
Are we better off compared to service workers? Oh yeah, definitely.
This is true and often lost on a lot of people. It's easy to blur the big picture when so many people slave away for scraps. If you weren't worth a significant portion more of what you are paid, you wouldn't be employed.
>We are very fortunate to be paid as much as we are for sitting at home and working on a computer.
We are fortunate enough to be born with the brain capacity to be rarely apt at such an in-demand and highly valuable skill. Of course developing the skill itself was hard work, not luck. We automate at pennies on the dollar. If we were paid 5x more than "market rates," our employers would merely double their investment rather than 10x. Double is an impressive return on any investment.
The notion of service workers working remote is a silly one. I regret calling it a 'unquestionable human right'.