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> You know who else talked about the commodification of labour? M- is dragged off stage by angry HN audience I mean HN is the news aggregator for ycombinator,
by blaser-waffle 6y ago
> You know who else talked about the commodification of labour? M- is dragged off stage by angry HN audience
I mean HN is the news aggregator for ycombinator, an entrepreneurial startup incubator.
Doesn't mean there aren't good points there, but this is a tech news site for technology capitalists. This is the culture that gave us hackathons and death marches and veneration of guys like Steve Jobs.
- jfengel 6y agoIt also gave us Free Software and Open Source. Not quite the same people as Y Combinator, but there's definitely an overlap. Certainly you also see an awful lot of calls for the elimination of walled gardens and for sharing important pieces of corporate-owned infrastructure (such as the dominant social media sites). Cynically, it does look a bit as if people are M---ist when it comes to other people's stuff and capitalist when it comes to their own. But of course, often these are different individuals, who only seem to act as if there's a collective opinion.