{"id":16746,"date":"2020-08-25T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16746"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:04:50","slug":"why-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-can-the-ants-so-easily-escape-the-grasshoppers-thats-easy-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16746\/why-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-can-the-ants-so-easily-escape-the-grasshoppers-thats-easy-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why, for the first time in human history, can the Ants so easily escape the Grasshoppers? That\u2019s easy: The Internet."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The metaphor is not mine. It’s Aesop’s<\/a>. Uncle Willie borrowed it<\/a>, just lately. Every true fable has a moral, and here’s the moral to Willie’s story:<\/p>\n

\u201cGrasshoppers need Ants, but Ants don\u2019t need Grasshoppers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Willie was working from a premise elucidated in today’s New York Post<\/em><\/a>, why taxpayer-hostile big cities will not recover from their recent tantrums:<\/p>\n

Why can they go so easily? Because for the first time in history, Internet bandwidth allows all or nearly all white-collar \u00ademployees to work remotely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being stuck in or near cities and all their discontents was a link in the golden handcuffs of having a boastworthy corporate job. Now that link is broken, replaced by a link to a Zoom meeting \u2013 and there may never again be any reason to fear getting lice in your hair or vomit on your shoes.<\/p>\n

Nice going, Grasshoppers. It will take decades and wrecking balls to come back from this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The metaphor is not mine. It’s Aesop’s. Uncle Willie borrowed it, just lately. Every true fable has a moral, and here’s the moral to Willie’s story: \u201cGrasshoppers need Ants, but Ants don\u2019t need Grasshoppers.\u201d Willie was working from a premise elucidated in today’s New York Post, why taxpayer-hostile big cities will not recover from their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17791,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17791\/overnight-news-for-now-there-are-predators-and-prey-heaven-to-be-neither-hell-to-be-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":16746,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: For now, there are predators and prey. 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