Thoughts on remote

This is more of a free thinking and "what if" exercise kind of post.

Through all of my life I’ve been taught to go to the different entities. It started with the daycare, the cadence is simple 5 days a week you’ve been put into the daycare and spend most of your day in there, socialise with the children of the same age to shape up your self awareness to be a part of the social groups.

After the daycare comes primary school, I’ve started going there myself, because it was close to where my parent’s house was. It was followed by the high school…5 days a week sometimes even 6, I was going to that entity to educate myself.

School years passed and I became a student of the university and same cadence began again - 5 days a week I was going to an entity, to socialise, educate and sometime even work. By that time my mind was pretty much used to this. The routine is inevitable.

Obviously it has smoothly transitioned for me to my first job, you guessed it - 5 days a week commute to the entity…

Thinking about remote, I can see why it could be potentially a challenge for people to move onto it. Also it might be tied to one of the reasons people moving to cities - commute to the entity, depending on your status, this entity could be your daycare, school, office and etc. With the modern world technologies where things can be delivered to your door and you can talk to anyone via the electronic devices and video cameras the problem of commuting to the entity becomes less crucial. But going back to my story, I personally think that today’s people are mostly not used to the new paradigm meaning that it can be hard to switch.

Thinking about it under the different angle. Let’s look at the cities. They contain majority of the population of countries, the cost of living is way much higher than the cost of living in the country. This is also a product of the whole education story with commuting to the entities. More people need to stay close to the daycares, schools, offices and etc, therefore more people need to rent/buy places for living near by. As a result cost of living skyrockets in the cities.

Now, what if people become remote? What if people no longer forced to commute? What if people can choose where they want to live not based on the entities they’d have to commute to, but based on their personal preferences? For example some people like to leave close to the Mountains, some people prefer oceans, some people prefer plains. What if we start with an education? What if there would be a truely remote education available? Will this help?

Could this heal the pricing problems?

There is a number of challenges with this approach. Socialising aspect is very important for younger generations, how they will socialise being remote? Global economy with its big corporations, how it will affect it?

Just putting my thoughts here.