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The wording makes this really hard to read.
by moonka 9y ago
The wording makes this really hard to read.
- d_theorist 9y agoYes, it’s annoyingly over-written. Some parts barely even make sense. I also question whether the author knows what the word “capitalism” actually means.
- eru 9y agoAlas, capitalism means many different things to many different people. (As a mildly interesting example of a similar phenomenon: the pro-business libertarian / neo-liberal FDP party in Germany still proudly calls itself 'liberal'.)
- jccalhoun 9y agoAgreed. I had to stop reading it. The subtitle gives you all the information you need: "Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated 'company towns' of the Gilded Age." I am troubled by privately-owned "public" spaces but the writing of this article isn't doing anyone any favors.
- gniv 9y agoI cringed at this: "Its CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, has vowed to acquire four million more over the next five years, a muscular move meant to complement his midlife-crisis physique."
- Bartweiss 9y agoIs it just me or is Bezos' fitness a bizarrely common topic for tech-skeptic pieces? I swear I see it written and meme-d about more than basically any other single human-interest factoid about executives. If that's true, it raises the question of why. The look isn't all that exceptional, he's just somebody who works out a fair bit, and didn't when he was younger. He's not exactly Erik Prince. So the focus on it, and the frequently malicious tone, sort of parse as "he doesn't look like nerds do anymore, that's suspicious". This could all be apophenia, obviously. It just raises an eyebrow since I've seen athletic programmers greeted with "but you don't look like a programmer!"