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If the world has some zero sum decisions to make, are you shocked someone wishes it worked out for them?

Extroverts wish they could go back to socializing and excelling at work in person, and introverts wish they can stay at home at the expense of extroverts. One or the other loses in the workplace.




The difference is that we generally do not recognize a right to coerce someone else into meeting our needs, but we do generally recognize a right to meet our own needs.

This is why articles like this rarely come out and say "I need the introverts to come back to social events to meet my needs", they always try to frame it as about productivity or (as very condescendingly demonstrated here) about the mental health of the introverts themselves.

I think the balance we need to get to has to be one where extroverts are meeting each other's needs by working in teams that choose to be in person and hanging out with each other socially rather than moping online about how everything is so much less fun. You don't need to drag us along for the ride to have a good time.


Your condescension toward extroverts is noted.




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