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This is an alphabet soup of fads and terms put in a political blender to make a barely coherent point. All seems to boil down to frustration with the job market
by sologoub 8y ago
This is an alphabet soup of fads and terms put in a political blender to make a barely coherent point. All seems to boil down to frustration with the job market trends.
Main thesis seems to be “millions of people have to leave where they grew up to find even halfway dependable work;“
Ok, the entire premise of the “digital nomad” is that work can be done from anywhere. The exact opposite of what is being argued here - if the work can be done from anywhere, then you can compete for that work from the comfort of your familiar settings. Or if you so choose, from anywhere in the world. That’s digital nomadism, not herding people into ever smaller spaces to make things more efficient.
A huge part of today’s digital work can be done from any well equipped home office or even a bench with a good internet connection and a power supply reserve. The fact that we MAKE remote work difficult is our own doing (me included) and will require a culture change that is well on its’ way.
- peteretep 8y ago> This is an alphabet soup of fads and terms put in a political blender to make a barely coherent point It's in the Opinion section in the Guardian; this shouldn't be a huge surprise. I hate how news sites -- and the Guardian are particularly guilty of this -- mix opinion and news in very similarly styled layouts. The Guardian seemed to have started this with "Comment is Free" back in the day. The Guardian is very authoritative for news, and often pretty worthless for columnists / opinion pieces. I appreciate the Economist having started 1843 Magazine, which appears to be a specific counter to that. It's promoted by their social media outlets, and yet it's clearly a separate brand.
- thraway180306 8y agoWow, citing The Economist as neutral news, that's something. Probably about you.
- peteretep 8y agoI'd be at least vaguely curious to know in which direction you think it's biased.
- alphabetslurry 8y agoI can't tell if this is a good faith question or not. The Economist is widely known as THE magazine for neoliberal capitalism.
- leg100 8y agoLaissez-faire, free-market, liberal, anglo-saxon economics and politics. Think Adam Smith or utilitarians like John Stuart Mill. Add a sprinkling of sympathy for social justice, social democracy. Small'ish state, pro-abortion, pro-gun-control. Unquestioning of capitalism as the only game in town, with forever a rosy view of its prospects (if only politicians stop meddling). They regularly have an article damning France and its dirigism.
- sologoub 8y agoThat’s probably why - Guardian news journalism, while still biased is usually readable and contains concrete and relevant facts. This commentary is something else entirely.