Not to go into each of your counter-examples, but while some of them can't be done remotely today, surely we can get there.
Eg. how far away are we from having remote-controlled tractors and combine-harvesters? Sure, get them home into a garage when they need servicing.
Hospitality? There are places which, especially in the first pandemic year, have gone all hands-off (eg. get a token to access a property on your check-in without talking to anyone).
But rather than can we, I think the point should be should we? There's a psychological cost to working with people you've never met personally, never hanged around with... And some people will struggle to get any social activity happening in their lives without work.
I've worked remotely for 15+ years, but I don't think it's for everybody, or for anybody all the time.
People going to places is no the problem. The problem is the peak demand. (Eg. usual commute. Rush hour.)
It'd be much much better if people were spending all that fuel on traveling with friends to anywhere else. (Or just going to events/festivals.)
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That said remote work without any IRL interaction is definitely psychologically unhealthy. But! Doing a twice monthly sprint rollover or whatever means a qualitatively different kind of transit than the daily commute.
You understand that agriculture didn't shut down because farmers couldn't sit on their tractors and pull equipment, but because nobody was buying the product they were producing, right?
Eg. how far away are we from having remote-controlled tractors and combine-harvesters? Sure, get them home into a garage when they need servicing.
Hospitality? There are places which, especially in the first pandemic year, have gone all hands-off (eg. get a token to access a property on your check-in without talking to anyone).
But rather than can we, I think the point should be should we? There's a psychological cost to working with people you've never met personally, never hanged around with... And some people will struggle to get any social activity happening in their lives without work.
I've worked remotely for 15+ years, but I don't think it's for everybody, or for anybody all the time.