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Hustle would be a possible translation but in my understanding only if your System D involve something illegal or is meant to generate money (eg take the bus wi
by eric-burel 3y ago
Hustle would be a possible translation but in my understanding only if your System D involve something illegal or is meant to generate money (eg take the bus without paying to get to your job before getting your first pay).
System D is broader than that.
- thih9 3y agoCan you give an example of System D that is not related to generating money or something illegal? The examples I’ve seen were mostly about selling one kind of food as another, more expensive. E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671220 > System D, arguably, reached its heyday in the Victorian-era railway hotels, where the menus were huge and it was not unusual for an extra two hundred guests to show up wanting, say, the Fricasse of Lobster Thermidor — for which only fifty portions were available. Suddenly, Thermidor for fifty was transformed into Thermidor for two hundred. Don't ask how. You don't want to know.
- eric-burel 3y agoCould be organizational, like there's a transport strike so you create a Google sheet based carpooling system that you share with colleagues coupled with a facebook page where each person that goes to the station shares up to date info and you involve your grandma that happens to own a van in the process. Look for BlaBlaCar history it's basically that, carpooling is specifically popular in France.