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With the exception of streamers with a substantial regular audience, people taking active part in social justice events, and devs lucky enough to work on lively
by legerdemain 6y ago
With the exception of streamers with a substantial regular audience, people taking active part in social justice events, and devs lucky enough to work on lively community projects, average people in my peer group have not started organically bonding into bands of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers of the information superhighway.
For example, I've watched a lot of roommate groups in shared houses fall apart as housemates pack up and go home to live with their parents.
This essay honestly feels like the author has transferred the style and cliches of mid-90s techno-utopianism into an essay promoting the benefits of neoprimitivist permaculture, buzzwords and all.
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- cinquemb 6y agoI'm starting to see something like this happen with devs that pursue many contract work (non community projects) and pool effort/work and split the spoils (its a group of two, one usually does db stufff, one usually does application stuff, but both can write/ship code. I might work with them in the future, working with one them now). But overall, I'd agree, something like this is a non starter if each individual in a "squad" cant some how contribute meaningfully in part to its wealth. Analogy might be to a specops squad to killing: might have a sniper, a couple of riflemen, a grenadier/demo, someone who can handle heavy weapons, and maybe a tactical communications/CAS person; all them can kill you in their own way and in a variety of environments, missing one reduces their ability in said environments.
- twic 6y ago> mid-90s techno-utopianism Reading the article, i could almost believe i was reading an interview with someone from the Media Lab in an issue of Wired back in the day.