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Hmmm. This title says "working class," but the title of the linked article is "The Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle-class into the new p
by diydsp 13y ago
Hmmm. This title says "working class," but the title of the linked article is "The Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle-class into the new proletariat." (capitalization as in the original, btw). Get prepared for another mental jerk when you read the subtitle of the article, which puts the responsibility for destruction on the new _economy_, which is distinct from classes. (Which aspect of the economy, deficit spending? new welfare laws? reduced military budget? bailouts? who knows, who cares! -it's all about people with money and power that I don't have, so they're Bad-) Someone needs to get their terms organized...
The article itself is full of phrases like "seems like" and other wishy-washy half-assertions. Before we get up in arms and wield terms like "destroying," let's see if we can clearly document the changes the internet is creating... Oh, but then we wouldn't have sensationalist web-magazine articles to validate middle-class guilt... :)
SO, with that in mind, perhaps we can narrow the discussion down from leviathan topics like "internet, economy and classes" to the topic of "Fancy Hands," which is the web-facilitated service referred to in 90% of the paragraphs of the article. So often, that one would be forgiven for believing this article was ghost-written by FancyHands.com in the first place.