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> Left unsaid is that many human traders are subjected to similar Pavlovian "training" -- and are treated with about as much kindness and dignity as those rats.
by andrewmutz 2y ago
> Left unsaid is that many human traders are subjected to similar Pavlovian "training" -- and are treated with about as much kindness and dignity as those rats.
Is this art a statement about how poorly society treats the financial services industry?
- sodcyzf 2y agoIts a statement on how to deal with the limited intelligence of a rat and give it a sense of dignity and purpose.
- fmbb 2y ago”Society” does not treat financial ”services” in any particular way. The owner class just treats their hackers of the financial system just as bad as they treat any other workers.
- InitialLastName 2y agoThe owner class treats their hackers of the financial system far better than they treat the truckers and warehouse stockers of the logistics system.
- lacy_tinpot 2y agoAnd it's hilarious that those people seldom talk about "class". The working class is almost entirely outside that kind of politics.
- lacy_tinpot 2y agoThe hackers are really the poor and oppressed underclass of our age is something I didn't think I'd ever hear. Delusions of revolution are really an upper-middle class/failed elite phenomenon.
- passivegains 2y agoI'll never forget how James Mickens describes hackers in This World Of Ours: "vaguely Marxist but comfortably bourgeoisie."