>From: "Emlyn O'Regan" <emlyn@one.net.au>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Homeless
>Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:17:42 +1000
>
>I've got to ask a really naive question.
>
>What's the point of a CBD? Why do all these companies that do whitecollar
>work pay the exorbitant sums to have buildings smack in the center of town,
>forcing their employees consequently to either pay sky high rents
>themselves, or to commute long distances? What advantage does this confer
>on
>the employer?
>
>Similarly, why is silicon valley the place to be? Why would I set up
>business there, with all the attendant cost, if I was running an
>essentially
>whitecollar (knowledge work) business? Is it so important to be
>geographically close to my complementors, and my competition?
>
>I realise there's probably a simple answer to this, but for the life of me,
>I can't work it out.
>
>Emlyn
>
Ha! Only an Extropian could ask this. The business world runs on *trust*.
The look in a person's eye, and their body language is important to the
people who control the money. Whether or not it really means anything is
another matter. But that is the way they operate.
They want to be able to schmooze, to be able to meet for lunch with
potential business partners. That is why all those tall power towers are so
close together.
That is why telecommuting is not practiced more. The money men never spent
all that much time reading books (unlike us Extropians); they read people
instead. Hard to read a person across an electronic link.
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