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Yes, when reading this article, I wondered how influenced it was by the philosophy of hyper-individualism. And maybe even the positive-thinking ideology Barbara
by calibraxis 13y ago
Yes, when reading this article, I wondered how influenced it was by the philosophy of hyper-individualism. And maybe even the positive-thinking ideology Barbara Ehrenreich discusses. (http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsidedexcerpt.htm http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsidedexcerpt.htm)
But people team up to accomplished shared ends; they're constantly "pushing in". Startups are often done by people who work crazy hours to gain something they didn't have before. We build formal corporations (weird sorts of communes) and informal networks. Because we live in a social context; money ceases to make any sense absent certain social relations.
So it's only rational for people to form teams where members support each other through shared difficulties. (http://leanin.org/circles/ http://leanin.org/circles/) (Would be even better if it's not just for those whose problem is the glass ceiling, but also the dark basement.)
- calibraxis 13y agoBTW, the gendered passive "lean in" rhetoric is definitely a problem, here I agree with the author, and previously misunderstood.