Emi
"WeWork is promoting a mythology for those in the brave new gig economy: You, precarious worker who will never have a pension, are not a simple cog in a machine. Your work is not merely labour, for which you deserve decent pay and security, but an extension of your personality. You’re doing what you love and paying $500 per month for the desk from which to do it."
Let's hatch a #cooperative alternative!

https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/
Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?

The Walrus
Feb 18, 2018 at 6:32amWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 18, 2018
@emi maybe I'm old and from a different culture (although we do/did have something like this in some area of Ipswich that is part funded by the University), but I can't see how these "SV style" ones wor . I get the impression "tech" gig workers are often competing for the /same/ type of work, surely any interaction between them would be awkward smalltalk for fear of giving away useful info to a competitor, rather than an genuine atmosphere of friendly collaboration?
Show threadtSattyFeb 19, 2018

@emi wow, every single description of that "WeWork" place is almost taken out of a dystopian nightmare.

Even just the "craft beer on tap" and the "it’s nice to go somewhere where there’s a lot of busy people being productive" are horrifying to me, being an introvert and also opposed to toxic masculinity (which there's plenty of in the "let's drink beer at every social gathering" way of life).