I also go to the doctor so someone will actually, if briefly, touch me.

It's about money and control. Money invested in and harvested from owning commercial properties. Control from making employees do things they don't want to, just to beat them down and "keep them in line". A lot of bosses exercise power for its own sake, unfortunately.

I have empathy for folks who want to collaborate, and/or be mentored, and/or socialize at work. I no longer want or need those things from my job, but....I came up that way so it would be hypocritical of me to say that others shouldn't want them.

On the other hand, cars are destroying everything and commuting in 2023 (if you don't truly need to) is just dumb. Progress always comes with some amount of pain and adjustment.

As a victim of nonstop Windows updates at work, I'm convinced only 10-20% of them have anything to do with real security fixes or important bug fixes. The other 80-90% are some random Microsoft jackasses pushing pointless stuff out so they can say "look boss, I did a thing". MS has always been a crappy software company, but they've become much worse over time as the MBAs have grabbed the wheel.

I'm concerned about the arms race between code breakers and code makers in regards to the future of encryption. But I think I'm even more troubled about data from the past. Everything gets archived somewhere, and the old encrypted data that's forever archived will be super easy pickings.