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I get it but don’t have a direct solution for that, it’s a process and includes many unknowns and has no guarantees but isn’t the premise here to use our unprod
by conductr 2y ago
I get it but don’t have a direct solution for that, it’s a process and includes many unknowns and has no guarantees but isn’t the premise here to use our unproductive time while unemployed to create something that hopefully is worth something one day?
It’s odd to me that while unemployed people are all individually working on side projects, learning the latest stacks, etc and do it all as throwaway code that will never see the light of day-and that’s seen as acceptable, as is contributing to open source, etc. But doing those same activities as a cooperative and paid in equity is where people draw a line.
There’s definitely a lot of details to work out if this were to take shape. How much equity do people earn, what happens when they get a job and their availability declines, etc. But it wouldn’t take much effort to think through those kinds of things and make something reasonable/fair.
- em-bee 2y agoi get your point, but it doesn't match my reality. all my time is spent on searching for and applying to jobs. i tend to have more time for side projects while i am actually earning money. in part it's the anxiety of not spending enough time on searching for work, which makes it difficult to focus on something else. i can't even spend much time with my children without feeling guilty that i should be spending more time on jobhunting. it would help if i still had some savings like a year ago, but those are almost used up by now.
- conductr 2y agoMakes sense. After initial period, I only see enough jobs to keep me busy ~10 hours a week. It's how I spend my first ~2 hours a day so we do just have differing realities in that regard