They should remake Waterworld, set 100 years into the future. Central banks have printed enough money to buy up all the houses and leave them empty and decrepit. Civilization is reduced to living in Walmart parking lots while the rich have settled on floating ultrayachts in the middle of the ocean. A man develops gills and can swim between the yachts, which he plunders designer products from to deck out his swagboat. He discovers a mysterious key in an LV bag which can unlock the county assessor's office and return everyone to dry land, and everyone is after it.

I never had the impression that people with eight or nine figure paychecks shlepped to the office regularly even before the pandemic.

What rubbish clickbait. Anyone who can afford a super yacht was never constrained by return-to-office mandates. They are the boss dictating their own fates.

I don't see this freedom as a problem.

The greater problem is the accelerating CEO pay compared to worker pay. Auto workers were recently offered 21% while CEOs saw gains of 40%. Widening inequality and lack of integrated delivery social programs creates a myriad of socioeconomic problems including the homelessness crisis, latchkey kids with absent dual income parents, and reduced purchasing power.

So they are all lazy and don't really work?

Because that's what's being said about the not super rich in home office

The picture shows just about the most unproductive working position imaginable, raising the neck to stare at a laptop washed out in the bright sun while having to type with arms that also need to support the body.

I heard from a friend that executives in the Auto Industry were taking Zoom meetings from their boats early on in the pandemic. The bad PR from this pushed people back to the office.

Sending "we're better together" RTO mails from their yachts, too, I'm sure.