Who Wrecked the Office?

It’s a tragic story, but perhaps it will have a happy ending, someday. [Gilder's Daily Prophecy] November 30, 2021 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [ARCHIVES]( Blood-curdling SCREEEAAAAAMMMMM!!!! Your future just ended. And whether you realize it yet or not… Everything you have from the money in the bank, to the stocks sitting in your 401k… Are all being given to you on loan. Because if the [information]( [this former advisor to the CIA and Pentagon]( just revealed live on camera is correct. These markets have already crashed, and it’s only a matter of weeks (maybe even days) before everyone catches on. Reader, The markets just let out a blood-curdling SCREEEAAAAMMMMM… And you don’t have long to act. [>Click Here to See Why All of Your Wealth Could Be in Danger<]( Who Wrecked the Office? [Jeffrey Tucker]Dear Daily Prophecy Reader, The Wall Street Journal sometimes identifies an interesting social trend that is otherwise lost in blizzards of data. A front page story over the weekend reveals something interesting: more people are working for themselves now than in longer than a decade. This especially pertains to young people. Rather than slogging through the corporate thicket, getting a cubicle assignment, and fitting in with the machinery, many are deciding to go it alone. We aren’t talking about starting the next Amazon here, at least not yet. The kinds of things they are doing could be better summarized in the word gigging. They are arranging deliveries or making them on a freelance basis. They are buying and selling stuff on Facebook marketplace and eBay. They are doing independent project management for other small businesses, and juggling several clients at once. Yes, it helps that many of this generation are so-called reverts. They have gone home to live with Mom and Dad. Someone else is paying the bills, while they can imagine themselves to be genuine entrepreneurs. Often it is fantasy. Regardless, there is an emerging ethos that many in this group, and older, do not want to be at the office. Why is that? The office was one of the great achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Before then, all work was at home. On the farm. In the shop. On the ranch. The office, typically in the city, became a place of emancipation. You could leave your historic homestead and make a go of it in the city. You could meet people beyond your tribe. You can marry someone that perhaps your parents had never met. The office was a symbol of choice, of diversity, of progress, of prosperity. What happened to it? I will go through them in order. Withholding Tax. This was introduced during World War II. It was a way for government to get revenue now, rather than waiting until the end of the year. It was a means by which the government could pay for the stuff it was buying. This was back when the government cared about getting money directly, rather than merely borrowing it all and inflating it by buying those bonds back. The trouble was that this turned business into a tax collector for the government. Suddenly private enterprise found itself enlisted in a dirty business, the business of compulsion. Government gradually learned how to outsource itself to the private sector. That’s very dangerous and suddenly we had a situation in which the workforce was divided between those who had income withheld and those that did not. That contributed to making the workplace less an organic part of the market. Senior Tesla Battery Engineer QUITS… of Tesla’s senior battery engineers recently QUIT and started his own battery company… And [now he’s filed the patent paperwork for the KEY manufacturing process]( that could revolutionize the entire industry. [Click here for the details about this new tech – it’s all covered under patent application No. 3069168.]( Other payroll taxes. After this, a range of other taxes began to hit the paycheck. There was Social Security. Medicare. Unemployment insurance. Business became the means by which the worker was pillaged. Suddenly, your paycheck was not only about getting paid for what you do, but rather a means by which the state got to wet its beak with proceeds of worker productivity. Health Care provision. After the Second World War, some health care companies worked with big businesses to offer employee benefits in the form of health care. It was by and large a competitive trick: big business was trying to attract workers. That’s fine and fair. Until it gradually came to be mandated by companies over a certain size. By the 1970’s, this became conventional business behavior, and health care costs began to skyrocket. Of course. The third-party payment system meant less control to the consumer. Now business was starting to be a kind of welfare state. Mandated Benefits. Once this began, there was no stopping it. There were vacation days, sick leave, operating hours, maximum working hours, minimum hours, rules about employees and contractors and so on. Now the workplace became not just a place to work, but a feeder of lifestyle, “work/life balance,” and the rest of the blather that has massively distracted us from the whole point of the office in the first place. It began to pretend to be a way of life rather than just a job. Ridiculous. Management Theory. As you know from being in the office, the single worst day is when the boss announces that he has read a new book on management theory and has hired a consulting firm to show up to revolutionize the workplace. With that came a whole dictionary of bogus concepts, all of them preposterous. Then you had college degrees in management, which somehow entitled losers to lord it over experienced employees. By and large, the theory and practice of management has been an astonishing annoyance and waste for the American office. Any truly successful company works because these parasites have been kept away as long as possible. Human Resources. The final step in the destruction of the American office was the introduction of whole divisions that were designed to keep up with all the above. This is the dreaded HR division, filled with people trained in HR and determined to wreck all enterprise via endless bureaucracy. HR departments attract conflict, both creating it and perpetuating it. After the 1980’s, HR started being in charge of all personal relationships in the office and being a magnet for unending kvetching about everything. Today we see how this works. When the Biden administration started pushing its vaccine mandate, it appealed directly to the HR departments, which are legally risk averse in the extreme. They immediately swung into action and told management that everyone had to get vaccinated right away, lest they run afoul of the law. It was not true, but people and workers and management are all terrified of HR. Finally, we have to mention lockdowns. This freed one third of American workers from the office, the place that was once emancipatory that had now become a source of despotism in people’s lives. This is one reason that lockdowns lasted so long. It gave millions of people a break from the place that many had come to hate. At least you didn’t have management consultants, bureaucrats, HR nazis and the rest, breathing down your neck. You could actually do your job. So it is no wonder that many people do not want to go back. Millions of people have gone missing from the office and from the labor force. The office, by being enlisted by government and social justice warriors to become part of the vast enforcement apparatus of woke culture, had become a source of oppression. It’s a tragic story, but perhaps it will have a happy ending, someday. Maybe if the office can recreate itself into what it was, a place to meet and greet and work together, without all the apparatus that ruined it, there will be some silver lining here. With the massive worker shortage, something will have to be done to get people to consider coming back. Either that, or millions of workers will stay permanently missing or just spend their time gigging around to get by. Regards, [Jeffrey Tucker] Jeffrey Tucker If you missed out on bitcoin – WATCH THIS NOW you’re still kicking yourself for missing the boat on bitcoin, America’s top futurist has good news… He claims that tech insiders are already moving beyond bitcoin and into an even more lucrative technology. One that could soon send a shockwave through the tech world… ruin many major Silicon Valley companies… and propel a new class of stocks towards trillion-dollar status. [Hit this link now for more](. 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