Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.
Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.
But the jerks are the real issue.
Only up to a certain extent. The point of federation is that the shit gets spread around the instances.
Also, we have evolved “free speech” kind of ethos that only allows the most egregious of norm violations to be moderated.
This is place is forever lost to the edgelords.
We’re a bunch of assholes in a more or less unmoderated space. Of course discussion sucks.
This sounds like the kind of thing people say who can’t help themselves.
Like resolutions about never drinking again. Or how you really stopped smoking this time, pinky swear. Or how you’re definitely going to lose twenty pounds this year and hit the gym twice a week.
But why?
Simply put, there aren’t a lot of us, we don’t like them, and we aren’t particularly nice people, even to people we don’t dislike a priori.
It seems like a poor business decision.
Is it like that because we’re a bunch of snowflakes?
Raymond is a fucking incel. His site is a collection of cringe and “yes, this entry here, officer”.
Be that as it may, your ad hoc definition in your first comment was spurious and finds no basis in English language Marxist literature.
Are you the only person using that definition?
Because traditionally English speaking Marxists use them the other way around, as far as I remember, (work is useful, produces use value, labor is economic, produces economic value) if they make that distinction at all.
See for example:
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EDIT
Apparently the English edition includes a footnote by Friedrich Engels:
As has been stated in a previous note, the English language has two different expressions for these two different aspects of labour: in the Simple Labour-process, the process of producing Use-Values, it is *Work; *in the process of creation of Value, it is *Labour, *taking the term in its strictly economic sense. — F. E.
Which reads very much like you are using them wrong.
Can you elaborate on the work vs labor dichotomy?
I’m not familiar with the concept, especially because in my language the two would be almost exact synonyms in this context (unless you are Hercules or what not). And Latin languages just get the one.
Software meant to enrich its creator often isn’t
This is a prime example of what I alluded to in my comment. For-profit capitalism is the establishment politics, so it’s portraid as apolitical.
Also, the establishment politics of the public that must not be challenged in order to make money? Apolitical.
Politics is just another name for the way we decide how to run things. Everything that is not absolutely trivial is political to some degree.
“Apolitical” is just a dog whistle for establishment politics.
I’d love to see a TV series about Hadrian where he arrives in a new province every episode and fixes stuff.
Interspersed are scenes of young Hadrian with Trajan, who is constantly badgered by mail by provincial governors (including Pliny the Younger) about trivial matters, as he tries (and fails spectacularly) to instill into Hadrian the importance of decentralized leadership.
Also:
Also also, a horrible despot and mass murderer.
Obviously an asshole bastard. 12/10
Considering 80% of your post is rhetorical questions, I don’t think a reply is actually appreciated.
Thanks for posting this in English, I tried parsing the German post but I bounced hard off VZ-stelle, which I now realize means vollzeit.
And no, I would not work more than full time. It’s called full time for a reason.
It’s *because* we only shop online and in warehouses, it’s because we have no choice but to *not* engage with anyone, it’s because we’re increasing our reliance on 6" in-our-face screens, it’s because we don’t ever need to leave the comfort of our home that our neighborhoods and society are doomed to crumble.
lol no. It’s because shopping in person is a hellish gauntlet designed to make the stock price go, not to make sure I can reliably and comfortably meet my material needs.
I don’t owe anyone anything, least of all fucking brick and mortar chain stores.
If that means the end of society, good fucking riddance. There’s nothing worth saving about retail.
I mean, there are more things at play here than are obvious in my comment, but you are right that it’s not a great attitude to have.
The Olympians are a bunch of whiny ass petty excuses for gods.