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Our society is culturally configured to promote lying here. Instead of addressing the issue openly like adults, people decide to operate covertly, driven by com

Our society is culturally configured to promote lying here. Instead of addressing the issue openly like adults, people decide to operate covertly, driven by competition and fear of missing out. It'll be nice when we start to culturally grow up a bit and begin trusting the world. Collaboration/hybridization is much quicker than competition when it comes to genetic evolution & I suspect the same holds for cultural evolution.

mcguire 9y ago
So, to start with, shut down the rules against discussing salaries or university costs with coworkers and other students, respectively.
- asimpletune 9y ago
  I don’t know if there are rules against that. I think it’s more an unspoken rule that may have consequences if violated, although I’m fairly certain that’s illegal. The impetus is more on us to be open with each other about salary. It’s only in the company’s best interest for us not to do so.
  - mcguire 9y ago
    According to the article, "[Allcock’s report] says the school also tells applicants not to reveal to their classmates the size of their discount." Unwritten or unspoken, it does need to go.
    - sabujp 9y ago
      that seems as illegal as telling your employees that they can't share salaries
      - fjsolwmv 9y ago
        Seems as wrong, not as illegal. Legal is a specific technical standard.
- namelezz 9y ago
  > So, to start with, shut down the rules against discussing salaries or university costs with coworkers and other students, respectively. No, this will expose evidences of institutional and systemic racism and question people about the country name. Should it be United State or Segregated State?
jamesrcole 9y ago
One issue I think we need to address is how society basically judges things based on sound-bite descriptions of them. This is an area where I think IT can contribute, by trying to find ways to bias our communication technologies against such practices.
- crawfordcomeaux 9y ago
  I think this is a result of design methodologies and motivations geared toward talking advantage of human attention instead of respecting/cultivating it. We need a design theory based on mindfulness.

mcguire 9y ago

So, to start with, shut down the rules against discussing salaries or university costs with coworkers and other students, respectively.

asimpletune 9y ago
I don’t know if there are rules against that. I think it’s more an unspoken rule that may have consequences if violated, although I’m fairly certain that’s illegal. The impetus is more on us to be open with each other about salary. It’s only in the company’s best interest for us not to do so.
- mcguire 9y ago
  According to the article, "[Allcock’s report] says the school also tells applicants not to reveal to their classmates the size of their discount." Unwritten or unspoken, it does need to go.
  - sabujp 9y ago
    that seems as illegal as telling your employees that they can't share salaries
    - fjsolwmv 9y ago
      Seems as wrong, not as illegal. Legal is a specific technical standard.
namelezz 9y ago
> So, to start with, shut down the rules against discussing salaries or university costs with coworkers and other students, respectively. No, this will expose evidences of institutional and systemic racism and question people about the country name. Should it be United State or Segregated State?

jamesrcole 9y ago

One issue I think we need to address is how society basically judges things based on sound-bite descriptions of them. This is an area where I think IT can contribute, by trying to find ways to bias our communication technologies against such practices.

crawfordcomeaux 9y ago
I think this is a result of design methodologies and motivations geared toward talking advantage of human attention instead of respecting/cultivating it. We need a design theory based on mindfulness.