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Do you wear nice clothes to work present day?

by asdf21 7y ago

mcv 7y ago
I wear decent clothes, but nothing excessively expensive or visibly branded. I prefer clothes without visible brands; I'm not going to pay those companies to advertise for them. If they want me to advertise for them, they should pay me. Fortunately when I was a kid, my school was also relatively free from this. Maybe not primary school, where at a certain point Cool Cat sweaters became really popular. But in secondary school, clothes were more a way to express your own taste than to buy into some kind of status. Making your own or getting some vintage thrift shop stuff was cooler than a visible brand. But something simple was never wrong either, as far as I know. But clearly some schools or some countries are very different in this. It's all about how status-driven a culture is, I guess. Dutch culture has never approved of excessive displays of wealth, and reading this, maybe that's for the better.
wolco 7y ago
As a developer no.
b_tterc_p 7y ago
I do, but I work at a nice place with clear standards. Fortnite is garbo and free. For this analogy to work, I would need to feel like I was being attacked for wearing gym clothes to Arby’s or Taco Bell. Honestly I would be more prone to bullying people who do buy skins probably... you’re not cool if you put on an expensive tie to get your fake cheese Fritos milkshake anathema* for 0.69¢ (*I don’t have any particular reason to believe these exist)
- asdf21 7y ago
  For the analogy to work, you just need to realize that Fortnite is the closest thing kids have to a self-selected, competitive "workplace".
  - b_tterc_p 7y ago
    But there are other games. Games that actually cost money. It seems strange to me that wealth shaming behaviors are appearing in the free game but not the expensive one. I think I would always have thought spending money in a free game would be lame...
    - asdf21 7y ago
      Garish displays of wealth are generally more important to those with less means, to distinguish themselves. Probably the same here.
dvhh 7y ago
Nowaday IT people seems to crave for stickers on their laptop.

Do you wear nice clothes to work present day?

by asdf21 7y ago

Do you wear nice clothes to work present day?

mcv 7y ago

I wear decent clothes, but nothing excessively expensive or visibly branded. I prefer clothes without visible brands; I'm not going to pay those companies to advertise for them. If they want me to advertise for them, they should pay me. Fortunately when I was a kid, my school was also relatively free from this. Maybe not primary school, where at a certain point Cool Cat sweaters became really popular. But in secondary school, clothes were more a way to express your own taste than to buy into some kind of status. Making your own or getting some vintage thrift shop stuff was cooler than a visible brand. But something simple was never wrong either, as far as I know. But clearly some schools or some countries are very different in this. It's all about how status-driven a culture is, I guess. Dutch culture has never approved of excessive displays of wealth, and reading this, maybe that's for the better.

wolco 7y ago

As a developer no.

b_tterc_p 7y ago

I do, but I work at a nice place with clear standards. Fortnite is garbo and free. For this analogy to work, I would need to feel like I was being attacked for wearing gym clothes to Arby’s or Taco Bell. Honestly I would be more prone to bullying people who do buy skins probably... you’re not cool if you put on an expensive tie to get your fake cheese Fritos milkshake anathema* for 0.69¢ (*I don’t have any particular reason to believe these exist)

asdf21 7y ago
For the analogy to work, you just need to realize that Fortnite is the closest thing kids have to a self-selected, competitive "workplace".
- b_tterc_p 7y ago
  But there are other games. Games that actually cost money. It seems strange to me that wealth shaming behaviors are appearing in the free game but not the expensive one. I think I would always have thought spending money in a free game would be lame...
  - asdf21 7y ago
    Garish displays of wealth are generally more important to those with less means, to distinguish themselves. Probably the same here.

dvhh 7y ago

Nowaday IT people seems to crave for stickers on their laptop.