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Because you can? I don't necessarily disagree that there's too many videogames, but of all the things to get upset about, too many video games is really at the bottom of the list of things to get upset about.
But it's pretty weird to blame crumbling infrastructure on the pursuit of art when in reality suburban sprawl is already financially unsustainable with or without artists
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> 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.
I work exclusively in tech circles around L.A. and even being remotely sympathetic to Republican views is anathema. San Francisco is ideologically way more entrenched even though, ironically, their city is a mess, much like Seattle.
Are there specific Republican views that you think are anathema?
> 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…
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> 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.
I work exclusively in tech circles around L.A. and even being remotely sympathetic to Republican views is anathema. San Francisco is ideologically way more entrenched even though, ironically, their city is a mess, much like Seattle.
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> 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.
I work exclusively in tech circles around L.A. and even being remotely sympathetic to Republican views is anathema. San Francisco is ideologically way more entrenched even though, ironically, their city is a mess, much like Seattle.
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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…
Fuck praise and recognition, you want more of this type of thing to be done? Pay them. Pay them more.
Also is any of this really ever the end workers fault?
Pay a fair wage and people will do the work - but it still has to get organized higher up
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?
In fact Thomas Paine wrote:
"To understand what the state of society ought to be, it is necessary to have some idea of the natural and primitive state of man; such as it is at this day among the Indians of North America. There is not, in that state, any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in Europe,"
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I mean if you want to point at anything for blame... at least point at government spending. More than half of federal discretionary spending is on the military. Put a few % of that towards infrastructure... For reference .003% of the federal budget goes towards the national endowment for the arts'
This is very convenient buck-passing. Local governments have a lot more impact on my day-to-day life than D.C. does.