[HN Gopher] The loneliness of A Room of One's Own
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       The loneliness of A Room of One's Own
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2026-03-26 03:53 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | siva7 wrote:
       | The loneliness of a home office - and everything in the article
       | would be equally true
        
         | altmanaltman wrote:
         | Yeah, how could anyone forget Woolf's legendary sequel "A House
         | Office of One's Own"
        
         | justonceokay wrote:
         | I thought my coworkers were insane during covid, living in
         | their home offices and moving to the outer suburbs. My bosses
         | office was literally his bedroom closet, and he would go entire
         | days without seeing light.^ Maybe taking prescribed speed every
         | day helped with the loneliness. When covid hit I moved into a
         | house with 5 other people and got a job working at a factory. I
         | realized the only person who would get me the social time I
         | require is me.
         | 
         | ^ I know this because it snowed 6 inches in Seattle and he was
         | unaware until the next day
        
       | jonahbenton wrote:
       | The title is clickbait, unfortunately.
        
         | scorpionfeet wrote:
         | Jonah,
         | 
         | How? She literally builds the case that one hundred years later
         | there is more work to do and that Wolfe's prescience only went
         | so far. It's a salient continuation.
        
       | gregoryyy wrote:
       | It's endlessly interesting to me that despite the fact that the
       | modern educated middle class are overwhelmingly left wing and
       | dominate the "cultural sphere" (because they can afford to),
       | there's still a reluctance to really talk about class and their
       | own position in the class system in favour of lip service
       | supporting minorities and marketable individual identities.
       | Originally the struggles of the labour class and gaining support
       | and solidarity from those that had more wealth and opportunities
       | was the most central core concern of the left wing. It's probably
       | also the primary reason for the rise of reactionary right wing
       | parties.
        
       | mitchbob wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/2026.03.16-124144/https://newrepublic.com...
        
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