Joshua BarrettoIt occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.
The number of boosts this is getting implies that a lot of folk feel similar, and that's sad.
Matija Nalis@jsbarretto
might be related to the fact that worryingly ever increasing amount of jobs have no humanity-improving purpose whatsoever, and are only there to for improve one company short-term position in profit-driven econony rat-race over others. E.g. someone works most of their career improving click-through rate of some company ad campaigns? Or helps increase "engagement" numbers in some social network? Talk about sad
might be related to the fact that worryingly ever increasing amount of jobs have no humanity-improving purpose whatsoever, and are only there to for improve one company short-term position in profit-driven econony rat-race over others. E.g. someone works most of their career improving click-through rate of some company ad campaigns? Or helps increase "engagement" numbers in some social network? Talk about sad