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The Techies Are Finally Reading Marx
by beatpanda 9y ago
The Techies Are Finally Reading Marx
- java_script 9y agopatio11's salary negotiation blog post is our Das Kapital.
- gt_ 9y agoI doubt it, but a nuanced debate of his ideas on the part of those who purport to be so open to unconventional ideas would be refreshing. We love to promote learning from iteration but still remain amazingly averse to doing so in practice. I think this is just another example of that. The moonshot of UBI is an acrobatic avoidance of Marx, relatable if you were raised with the American indoctrination of Marx == Hitler (yeah I know but the lack of ideological overlap, or any overlap at all, hasn’t mattered because patriotism). We are due some maturity in this area. And on another hand, one should be forgiven for mistaking the open source movement for Marxism.