I'm perfectly capable of working 80+hrs/wk, especially on my own projects. But that's because of the internal creative fire from within.
How can any company expect to suck that type of energy out of anyone? I'm getting tired of companies who think they have the ability to do this. I see it on Wall St with analysts in the financial industry and now we're talking about it with programmers. With such a technically advanced, capitalist society, what does this say about us?
These companies will continue to do this to us as long as our peers are willing to believe the hype that getting worked into the ground for 5 years is going to bring better days.
This is the same myth that many of our organized religions use for control. Behave now so that you may thrive in heaven later.
I feel strongly that some we should organize ourselves some how. Is there anything we can learn from Union activity? Anything anyone can think of?
I'd like to start by saying that this is my first Slashdot reply/post ever. It's nice to be here. Slashdot is a perfect example of a system that fuels off bottom-up rule and emergence theory. There's no almighty-person or group of people figuring out what issues are most important and need to be discussed. In a way, it's a miracle that I'm sitting here responding to this article. This article represents something that the entire Slashdot system has proved is important.
Politics without a doubt should be like this. No person or group of persons should ever be in control. Even with programming, it seems we're always best off when we build our systems to learn and take care of themselves at the most fundamental level. I would love to have an Emergence Party, both political and for fun!
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This is why we should all grab a copy of PGP and start figuring out how to use it in an efficient way.
b /publickey.cfm
Here's my key.
http://www.justinpfister.com/blogwebsite/justinwe
I'm perfectly capable of working 80+hrs/wk, especially on my own projects. But that's because of the internal creative fire from within. How can any company expect to suck that type of energy out of anyone? I'm getting tired of companies who think they have the ability to do this. I see it on Wall St with analysts in the financial industry and now we're talking about it with programmers. With such a technically advanced, capitalist society, what does this say about us? These companies will continue to do this to us as long as our peers are willing to believe the hype that getting worked into the ground for 5 years is going to bring better days. This is the same myth that many of our organized religions use for control. Behave now so that you may thrive in heaven later. I feel strongly that some we should organize ourselves some how. Is there anything we can learn from Union activity? Anything anyone can think of?
I'd like to start by saying that this is my first Slashdot reply/post ever. It's nice to be here. Slashdot is a perfect example of a system that fuels off bottom-up rule and emergence theory. There's no almighty-person or group of people figuring out what issues are most important and need to be discussed. In a way, it's a miracle that I'm sitting here responding to this article. This article represents something that the entire Slashdot system has proved is important.
Politics without a doubt should be like this. No person or group of persons should ever be in control. Even with programming, it seems we're always best off when we build our systems to learn and take care of themselves at the most fundamental level. I would love to have an Emergence Party, both political and for fun!