when thinking up business ideas, imagine being the kind of person who wakes up and thinks:
A full day of Zoom Meetings? FUCK YEAH!
Now imagine working with someone like this.
Right?
Right.
This whole business online thing is a scam.
Sure you have to do it.
Who really wants to acutally spend all of their time online?
Even if you have different levels of mobility, the online thing is a mirage. The connections here are far less real than those with the dirt and the farts of the person standing next to you.
Doing ones business requires human touch. Take a look at what The Etymology of Fools has to say about ‘business’
Old English bisignes (Northumbrian) "care, anxiety, occupation," from bisig "careful, anxious, busy, occupied, diligent" (see busy (adj.)) + -ness. The original sense is obsolete, as is the Middle English sense of "state of being much occupied or engaged" (mid-14c.), the latter replaced by busyness. Johnson's dictionary also has busiless "At leisure; without business; unemployed." T…
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