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Work from anywhere: sailboats, solar generators, and Starlink

The Vergecast

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The Price of Flex Work

The price of this is a thing i've been trying to figure out. 92 million american workers now have the opportunity to work remotely, and 80 million of them urrently do. That's an incredible numberand it does differ. I mean, if you're rich and you're young and you work in tech, you have an even greater chance of doing that. But even according to this survey, forty seven % of people earning between 25 and forty nine thousand a year also have the ability to do flex work. So, you know, i mean, what is that escape worth to you? That's a price at everybody. That's personal to everybody. It's fair.

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