Doug @Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things.
I gave it a pretty thorough skim because I was bored at the time, and his basic premise is fine but he definitely gets further and further into the conspiracy basement as it goes on. eventually gets really radlib about revolution.
Given the way most STEM grads behave I really wonder how many of them actually understand the scientific method and how science works conceptually. I've been having bad experiences lately and doing a lot fo angry lecturing.
The current one is did you know that medical doctors continue to reccomend "diet and exercise" as the only reliable way to lose weight, and in fact routinely refuse medical care to fat people and treat fat people with contempt, when it is provable by overwhelming evidence that "diet and exercise" fails to reduce body weight for 90+% of people? That's not bad medical advice, that's an entire culture of deliberate malpractice.
There's also evidence that people who are fat but not extremely obese have better health outcomes and live longer, despite conditions like diabetes, that skinny people.
Doctor's hate this one weird trick that's supported by evidence from numerous studies because they're superstitious bigots.
yeah he seems very reluctant to embrace state power
Maybe I should start sending him a pile of anthropology books explaining how states reproduce by forcing adjacent people to either form a state to fight the state or else become enslaved or destroyed.
Refusing to create and use a state sounds good on paper but in practice a state is the most efficient economic and military organizational technology yet devised and so far no one has managed to devise any non-state method of organization that can resist a state, let alone survive one, let alone defeat one.
He did a short story about a MMO game where a guild of white upper class teens took to protecting South American gold farmers who sold the gold to feed their family.
Honestly that story was one of my biggest political awakenings as a middle class white teen
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How to convert STEM majors: Do what Marx wanted and call it "scientific socialism".
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Have you come across the Marxism is Thermodynamics boon posted here about a month ago? Sounds like you might get a kick out of it.
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Yes
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I gave it a pretty thorough skim because I was bored at the time, and his basic premise is fine but he definitely gets further and further into the conspiracy basement as it goes on. eventually gets really radlib about revolution.
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Given the way most STEM grads behave I really wonder how many of them actually understand the scientific method and how science works conceptually. I've been having bad experiences lately and doing a lot fo angry lecturing.
Stories pls, I love a good laugh at stemlords
The current one is did you know that medical doctors continue to reccomend "diet and exercise" as the only reliable way to lose weight, and in fact routinely refuse medical care to fat people and treat fat people with contempt, when it is provable by overwhelming evidence that "diet and exercise" fails to reduce body weight for 90+% of people? That's not bad medical advice, that's an entire culture of deliberate malpractice.
There's also evidence that people who are fat but not extremely obese have better health outcomes and live longer, despite conditions like diabetes, that skinny people.
Doctor's hate this one weird trick that's supported by evidence from numerous studies because they're superstitious bigots.
I mean it worked on me
Probably because Cory Doctorow isn't a Marxist.
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Maybe I should start sending him a pile of anthropology books explaining how states reproduce by forcing adjacent people to either form a state to fight the state or else become enslaved or destroyed.
Refusing to create and use a state sounds good on paper but in practice a state is the most efficient economic and military organizational technology yet devised and so far no one has managed to devise any non-state method of organization that can resist a state, let alone survive one, let alone defeat one.
Send them to me instead :100-com:
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Maybe not explicitly Marxist, but I've heard him use the phrase "socialism or barbarism" multiple times.
He did a short story about a MMO game where a guild of white upper class teens took to protecting South American gold farmers who sold the gold to feed their family.
Honestly that story was one of my biggest political awakenings as a middle class white teen
The next one after that is great, too: