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I think this is only partly about the need to keep the value of commercial real estate inflated.
I think there's a more fundamental psychological motivation.
The illusion that the C-suite actually contributes value sufficient to arguably justify their obscene salaries depends in large part on them sitting in offices at the top of a building full of workers.
If the building is not full of workers, that threatens the illusion.
Also, people with power often like to harm people that are less fortunate because they believe they deserve it: "If they were good people, they wouldn't need to work for a living, because they'd be rich. Since they're not rich, they must be bad people."
I was legitimately shocked at the cartoonishly villainous shit I heard in my brief time at an investment firm. I swear to God this is a verbatim quote from a middle-aged, white, millionaire, Mormon investment adviser:
"There's no excuse for any American not to be a millionaire, if they'd just stop buying their cigarettes and their dope for a few weeks."
Hand to God. It's so absurd that it sounds like a, "That man's name was Albert Einstein. And then they all clapped."-type story, but that place was fucking wild.
Finance bros are the OG of tech bros. I believe you.
To be fair, the first half of that is true. What's wrong is the victim-blaming nonsense, failing to correctly attribute the reason to wages' failure to keep up with worker productivity.
He needs to feel like a big man with a big pp. The way you do that is when someone is setting up an appointment for you and says "Is 3 o'clock okay?" You say, "No, I have a meeting." That shows them that you are a big man with big important business meetings to attend with your fancy briefcase. You can't take your fancy briefcase to your big important business meeting on zoom. Well, you can, but it loses the luster. And thus we have why so many CEO's want RTO.
Conversely, the middle management wants it because they don't want to be exposed as useless.
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A ton of petty, high school bully bullshit.
fElon has proved CEO's aren't needed to run a company.