It's kind of amazing how much people disparage work that's really intentionally about helping people. I don't even think people know they're doing it. Even when people emphasize the care aspect it's almost always at the cost of acting like you're less intelligent
@grimalkina how much of this do you think is misogyny? I feel like the disdain for “care” work is so embedded in disdain for women. I also wonder if that’s part of why tech ppl sort of sneer at managerial roles.
@RickiTarr I think if you’ve gone from worrying about money to not worrying about money, that’s an incredibly liberating feeling.
But my job has surrounded me with people who spend so so so so so much of their time wringing their hands about money because they only have $1M in their retirement account and they’re already 40 and etc etc.
So you can definitely make yourself miserable by chasing money and losing perspective.
Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.
@RickiTarr yea it really gives the humans being immoral such a pass. Like “yea of course the CEO is laying off vulnerable people while raking in record profits and paying themselves record packages. That’s capitalism!
No. That’s a person making a choice within a system that allows that choice.
Also not for nothing that system doesn’t force to you accept these sorts of decisions without question or pushback.
For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!
@RickiTarr this has really changed since I had kids. Before I would say I was about where you are, but now since I am essentially never alone, I would prefer to be around other adults basically always.
@mekkaokereke I feel like we really have a huge weakness when it comes to sustaining any sort of political pressure. We can turn out for the protests, which feel righteous and glorious. But when it comes to the day to day grind of getting people elected, of keeping your issue front of mind…not so good.
Hopefully the subtext of who “we” is here is clear…
I felt this way after the women’s march too. And here we are, without even roe to protect us.
#NikkiHaley is supporting #Trump’s 2024 White House bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.
@GottaLaff but it’s not like Biden is a black panther. What do they really stand to lose? I feel like they are mostly worried about not getting invited to doubles tennis at the club or something. It’s so weird to me.
Possibly! I don't dispute that it may happen! I've seen a lot of thoughts in that direction for other technologies that never panned out, but I've also seen it go the other way.
Finding a use for the generative AI tools in the development process won't surprise me. Especially if the cost comes down.
What I balk at are replacement narratives or the idea that somehow it will invalidate human engineers.
@hrefna would be ironic if it replaced all the engineers but not the writers who had the foresight to unionize. I mean, I’d be out of luck, but I would recognize the irony