That is where universal basic income comes in place so everyone can work on the fun stuff they want to work on.
Sounds like an interesting theory. Who will be the ones that do the productive work that pays for UBI?
There are too many video games
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#32This post gets weirder and weirder as it goes on. It seems to end up at a place suggesting that society is going to crumble around us as everyone spends their time making and playing indie video games. I think that’s a little sensational, to say the least. Here is the central thesis. There’s a lot to get through before you get to this. Writing a game nobody plays discharges your energy and creates the feeling of achi…
yeah, I don't know about that, my indie game phase was fundamental to my carrer in 'hard' science.
computers are great creative outlets for selfexpression toying around with games isn't a bad thing
I also find the shoe making thing is a bit odd because for a lot of people it's a similar creative outlet.. for this person it's blogging
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#33People say all the time, "why spend all that money on space when there's so many problems on Earth?" Why do people never say the same thing about all the money spent on video games and Starbucks? Which is arguably a lot more money.
Trust me, people have a lot of opinions on video games being a waste of time and money. You should have heard my parents when I was a teenager.
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#34People say all the time, "why spend all that money on space when there's so many problems on Earth?" Why do people never say the same thing about all the money spent on video games and Starbucks? Which is arguably a lot more money.
Well that’s not really a fair comparison.
Space research is usually funded with taxpayer money (this is changing, but a fair amount of SpaceX’s revenue is still NASA contracts). Games and Starbucks are funded by folks after-tax wages. In both cases it’s money that they earned, but they have a lot more individual agency with the latter portion of their wages than the former portion.
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#35The majority of these indie games are made by teens and college students with little or no expectation of making a profit.
Kids made games or other art decades ago too, but distribution was never as free and easy as today. This is all good..
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#36> This is a whole another blog post, so I'll paint with broad strokes for now. My city, Seattle, is crumbling. We don't have the energy to maintain the roads, and our bridges are literally falling apart. We can't even maintain what our grandparents built, let alone make any grand new projects. What in the world does this have to do with people creating art? Maybe the crumbling infrastructure is emblematic of poor lea…
It’s about cultural values.
We don’t respect grunt work. We only respect art.
Our society’s values do not align with our society’s needs.
I’d like to see more praise and recognition of plumbers, builders, and, well, people that keep the wheels of society moving.
Instead, everyone must go to college and be some artist or otherwise high society. Trade schools are looked down on. And it’s hurting us.
As a game developer that grew up in Seattle, what he says resonates with me.
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#37We can't even maintain what our grandparents built.
Companies in our grandparents era paid taxes that paid for infrastructure.
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#38> This is a whole another blog post, so I'll paint with broad strokes for now. My city, Seattle, is crumbling. We don't have the energy to maintain the roads, and our bridges are literally falling apart. We can't even maintain what our grandparents built, let alone make any grand new projects. What in the world does this have to do with people creating art? Maybe the crumbling infrastructure is emblematic of poor lea…
> we aren't allowed to blame Democrats for running Seattle into the ground in tech circles
I exist almost exclusively in tech circles in and around Seattle, and we blame existing leadership for tons of problems. This seems so weirdly divorced from reality that it smacks of ideologue speak.
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#39That is where universal basic income comes in place so everyone can work on the fun stuff they want to work on.
Sounds like an interesting theory. Who will be the ones that do the productive work that pays for UBI?
I presume the same people doing productive work today. I think it would be a great net positive if all the people who want to sit around and do nothing all day would just go and finally do that, rather than getting in my way all the time at work.
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#40There are too many games that people don't wanna play
Maybe stop remaking pixel art platformers over and over again. One look at the itch.io and its very clear what kinda games there are too many of.