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>the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism. Inaccessible to who exactly?
At least 43% of the population: https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/kf_demographics.asp
You read my mind.
You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
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#112It’s ad reductio it’s like saying soccer is pushing a ball. You could also say life is waking up eating sleeping and then death. It’s true but it’s definitely an emotional argument. I preferred the lectures on free will by Conway, it does not answer anything but it allows for a nice réflexion
You literally judged it by its title alone, but congratz on knowing how to say ad reductio.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m looking for your substantive comment on the article but I haven’t found it yet. Pot, kettle, etc. And I realize the irony in the fact that my pointing this out to you is the main subject of my not-substantive comment. However, I won’t resort to accusing you of being simple minded, as I wouldn’t call someone who couldn’t make it though an article like this simple minded either. The concepts and history presented a…
100% agree. Flowery prose has its place, but an article calling on a return to traditionalism and denouncing the benefits of neoliberalism isn't it. Doubly on-the-nose is that the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.
I'd have thought that's exactly where it is placed; is not the neoliberal the efficient, the calculated, the stopwatch on the factory floor? Every word counts, the neoliberal grumbles, because time is money! The plight of the lower classes cares little for what some other gatekeeper deems 'inaccessible', after all, it is the low expectations and streamlined class sorting that determines such a thing either way. If it's valuable, it will be explained by others simply.
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#114You are slave to hope. You are slave to fear
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% agree. Flowery prose has its place, but an article calling on a return to traditionalism and denouncing the benefits of neoliberalism isn't it. Doubly on-the-nose is that the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.
I'd have thought that's exactly where it is placed; is not the neoliberal the efficient, the calculated, the stopwatch on the factory floor? Every word counts, the neoliberal grumbles, because time is money! The plight of the lower classes cares little for what some other gatekeeper deems 'inaccessible', after all, it is the low expectations and streamlined class sorting that determines such a thing either way. If it…
I challenge your assumption. Simple content does not equate to cheap production.
It does, however, equate to easier understanding by people who haven't been encouraged to invest their formative years in a thesaurus.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They could have chosen simpler individual words And they should have. I can put together a sentence using a lot of words most people won't know. It will be a valid sentence, and it will mean what I want it to mean, but a lot of people won't be able to understand what I intended it to mean.
It's so easy to look words up in a dictionary these days, but for some reason the tech community likes to take a perverse pride in reading at an 8th grade level. "How dare you use a word that happens not to be in my limited vocabulary?"
It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.
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#117Here's the paragraph that's making everyone mad: >Like the student and other forms of personal debt that prepare undergraduates to say two words—“Yes, boss”—the ideal of the entrepreneurial self serves a fundamentally disciplinary function: reinforcing the precarious nature of work in today’s digitalized, low-wage, precariously employed, and increasingly automated capitalism, one in which you are casually expendable…
Reading this, one might think capitalism is cruel and entrepreneurship is a horrible struggle. Or one might conclude it perfectly mirrors nature and life. I'm not sure what the fuss is about.
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#118One of the outcomes of the present crisis is that capital has in a way lost much of its value. The stock market took a beating, people who bought apartments for renting on AirBNB now have dead weight properties with possibly a mortgage to pay.
Meanwhile lots of people with well-paying jobs, like airline pilots for instance, took a blow putting them on practically the same level as low-paid workers and gig workers.
If this crisis continues for a long-enough period of time, it might just bring about a substantial reorientation of the global economy, and perhaps a new balance between capital and labor.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m looking for your substantive comment on the article but I haven’t found it yet. Pot, kettle, etc. And I realize the irony in the fact that my pointing this out to you is the main subject of my not-substantive comment. However, I won’t resort to accusing you of being simple minded, as I wouldn’t call someone who couldn’t make it though an article like this simple minded either. The concepts and history presented a…
I'm not sure why you're rushing to defend their comment, given they those chose to insult the author's work with derogatory term "word salad", a psychiatric term used to indicate the jumble of words present in some neurological and mental disorders. They were basically calling the author a retard, because they couldn't be bothered to take the time to understand the author's piece.
That's reductive and subjective. The grandparent comment said it was a word salad, you made the connotative connection to neurological disorder.
My connotative connection was to failed delivery, like throwing a handful of birthday cake instead of serving it up on a plate.
Your account is less than an hour old. Are you possibly the author on the piece? If so, I empathize. Direct critique in dense comment sections can feel brutal--but feedback can be worth the gauntlet.
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#120"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, get smallpox, let doctor do bloodletting, watch everyone around you die
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, get smallpox vaccine, live to play with your kids and watch them grow up...