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An excellent example of emerging Neo-Feudalism! Workers (Programmers, IT, Accountants - any white collar worker) will be housed in the same location as the Owne
by positron4 11y ago
An excellent example of emerging Neo-Feudalism! Workers (Programmers, IT, Accountants - any white collar worker) will be housed in the same location as the Owner of the business. It is strikingly similar to Medieval times where Apprentices used to work for employers - usually the Owner. Zoning laws will be changed to suit the businesses. It won't be an issue as long as the businesses are making enough profit to keep people employed and can generate taxes.
- zachsnow 11y agoRandom capitalization is like scare quotes -- it distracts from the message and focuses the reader on whatever underlying motive or mindset the writer might have.
- positron4 11y agoI did not randomly capitalize. The capitalization has been made for a reason.
- tbrownaw 11y agoPedantry is an excellent way to deliberately miss the point.
- positron4 11y agoLanguage is a tool to be used effectively. The implications of a particular choice of words (or the capitalizations thereof) might make people uncomfortable. But conciseness is a virtue of its own.
- gnaritas 11y ago> Language is a tool to be used effectively. Which you are failing to do, thus the meta-discussion about your weird capitalization. Were your choices effective, no one would be mentioning it.
- gnaritas 11y agoAnd what reason is there to capitalize all those seemingly random words? It is quite annoying to the reader, they are not proper nouns and have no reason to be capitalized.
- positron4 11y agoLook carefully at my comment. Pick out the words that I have capitalized. There is nothing random about them.
- polymatter 11y agoProgrammers, accountants, owner, medieval and apprentices are all capitalized where I would leave them uncapitalized. It feels random to me. I put it down to a different writing style.
- gnaritas 11y agoThey are not proper nouns, and this isn't a contract, so they have no reason to be capitalized. Just because you intend it, doesn't make it correct, it just makes it annoying.
- golergka 11y agoYou comment reeks of implication that this is somehow bad. How? Why?
- morgante 11y agoI don't get that impression at all. For one thing, nearly every example from TFA is of the owner living in in the workhome. Having employees live there would be an entirely different proposition.