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I agree about it being a lovely city to visit. But as someone in the startup scene in Berlin, I think many here would be hesitant to open a satellite office the
by m_fayer 9y ago
I agree about it being a lovely city to visit. But as someone in the startup scene in Berlin, I think many here would be hesitant to open a satellite office there, simply to avoid inviting cultural conflict between the typical Berlin startup's lefty and cosmopolitan workforce and increasingly culturally conservative Polish attitudes.
- expertentipp 9y agoWould you prefer your dolce grande latte with brown sugar or aspartame, Sir? Look, some eastern Europeans are stealing your fixed-gear bicycle!
- m_fayer 9y agoMake fun of hipsters all you like, heck it's not hard. But that won't change the fact that hipsters, a cultural group like any other, control a big chunk of the tech world, especially in Berlin. Meaning that you flippantly ignore their cultural preferences at your own peril.
- expertentipp 9y agoI have no idea who the hipsters are. An Anglosphere subculture?
- m_fayer 9y agoNothing Anglosphere about hipsterism. Plenty of that from Southern Europe and East Asia. A typical member is youngish (born early 1980 and forward), secular, educated in tech, media, the arts, sometimes (social) science, left-leaning, with an urban and transnational worldview. I think honestly it's more of a social and economic class than a subculture. It's a new word for "intelligentsia".