I think I pretty much live in workspace heaven. I work with 5 other people (our HQ staff is only 6 people), our average age is 27.
Our headquarters is a 10 bedroom farmhouse on 13 acres of land. My office is a bedroom with two closets, a private bathroom, hardwood floors, and a door that closes (and locks). I have complete autonomy over music, lighting, office arrangement, and furniture choices.
I have a full kitchen to work lunch/dinner from, and a meeting room with La-Z-Boy couches and a conference table.
If I'm too tired to work, there is a visitor cottage with 22 beds in it (for when we have chapter retreats).
I came from working in a cube in the corner of a warehouse, so this is pure bliss.
I agree most wholeheartedly with this response. AC's analysis of Marx's critique is right on topic to define the impossibility of the perfect world as described. But in truth, our selfish side of things brings to light the fact that this 'utopian' concept is feasible within the limited scope of ones own life. I do not believe it is possible for a WORLD VIEW to be based on this highly simplistic explanation of the communal instinct. (my explanation of this instinct as the drive behind technology/the internet is intentionally simplistic here) Rather, I believe it possible that MY LIFE and/or the lives of those I choose to commune/icate with, could be based wholly in the simple balance defined above.
Even so, it is not the OSS movement that I am specifically speaking to in this. More generally, I'm speaking to further flesh out the answer to the question "Where and why has communication in society evolved to this point" or, with respect to this audience, "where and why has the internet evolved in the paths it has".
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I think I pretty much live in workspace heaven. I work with 5 other people (our HQ staff is only 6 people), our average age is 27.
Our headquarters is a 10 bedroom farmhouse on 13 acres of land. My office is a bedroom with two closets, a private bathroom, hardwood floors, and a door that closes (and locks). I have complete autonomy over music, lighting, office arrangement, and furniture choices.
I have a full kitchen to work lunch/dinner from, and a meeting room with La-Z-Boy couches and a conference table.
If I'm too tired to work, there is a visitor cottage with 22 beds in it (for when we have chapter retreats).
I came from working in a cube in the corner of a warehouse, so this is pure bliss.
I agree most wholeheartedly with this response. AC's analysis of Marx's critique is right on topic to define the impossibility of the perfect world as described. But in truth, our selfish side of things brings to light the fact that this 'utopian' concept is feasible within the limited scope of ones own life. I do not believe it is possible for a WORLD VIEW to be based on this highly simplistic explanation of the communal instinct. (my explanation of this instinct as the drive behind technology/the internet is intentionally simplistic here) Rather, I believe it possible that MY LIFE and/or the lives of those I choose to commune/icate with, could be based wholly in the simple balance defined above.
Even so, it is not the OSS movement that I am specifically speaking to in this. More generally, I'm speaking to further flesh out the answer to the question "Where and why has communication in society evolved to this point" or, with respect to this audience, "where and why has the internet evolved in the paths it has".
Thank you AC for some intelligent commentary.
Brian Martin