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> As if the only value anything has is by how much dollars it makes. Thanks for highlighting this corrosive attitude right up front. The current US frenzy in
by gumby 3y ago
> As if the only value anything has is by how much dollars it makes.
Thanks for highlighting this corrosive attitude right up front.
The current US frenzy in this attitude started in the 1980s (remember Boesky, portrayed by Hollywood as Gordon Gekko: "Greed is Good") and went into overdrive over the last two decades. But it's certainly been popular in other times in US history, as well as elsewhere.
- Robotbeat 3y agoI feel like this isn’t so much a 2 decade thing but a 1 decade thing. 10-20 years ago, the open source and maker movement was at its peak. Even stuff like cryptocurrency was often motivated by interests other than money but instead ideological idealism. I think that changed a lot after a boom in startups and people just getting insanely rich for silly things… powerful fear of missing out killed a lot of the ideological idealism, and that created endless crypto scams and killed the impetus among much of the open source and maker movements.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoThis includes the drive to monetise everything. Hobbies, interests, skills - everyone now thinks: “how do I turn this into a side hustle? Must monetise all the things…”
- atomicnumber3 3y agoProbably because the economy's screws are turned so tight on the masses that it's hard to fund a hobby that isn't generating returns in some way.