johanna, at the cafe counter
I wish people would stop using terms like "war room" and "arms race" in realms like technology advancement and social structures like organizations and government/politics.
We need "strategy tables" and "community forums" and "collaboration interfaces".
The words have meaning and shape the interactions. The message, in its connotations, corrupts the medium.
feld
johanna, at the cafe counter
@ramin_hal9001 Sorry, I'm really not going to be pursuaded on that. Buying in to that system is the problem. I'm here in federated and open-source communications spaces to do less of that. If "people who work in science and technology" are indeed doing so to strengthen the capitalists and oligarchs, THAT'S THE PROBLEM and why the language around it needs to shift to disempower that.
Ramin Honary
@Johannab
> "I wish people would stop using terms like "war room" and "arms race"
I am not sure I agree. I believe this betrays the fact that people who work in science and technology are often doing so in order to strengthen the class of people that include the most wealthy people in the world. It betrays the fact that the wealthy class has a deep understanding of class war, they have a deep understanding that the working class is their mortal enemy, and that they are actively, consciously engaged in class warfare against us. Unfortunately, the working class doesn't understand the class war that they have been forced into, they don't recognize who their true enemies are, so they fight each other. I wish the working class would recognize who their true political enemies are and start fighting back. By all means, use the terms "war" and "arms," that is what is going on, and we're losing.
feld
johanna, at the cafe counter
@ramin_hal9001 @feld I recognize this. Also gotta pick the small battles at times and start shifting the ethic in those ways.
Unions, co-ops, labour-favouring market conditions can all be leveraged. As can "more ethical leaning capital" choices, like baking in a lower shareholder return that comes AFTER something like carbon offsetting.
My current tear is about language. My team should not see our customers as "the other side" from a "war room". We're all trying to keep hospitals running, FFS.
Ramin Honary
@feld @Johannab
> "How do the people who work in science and technology make a living if they're not working for the capitalists and oligarchs?"
Exactly. There is no way to make a living in tech WITHOUT serving the oligarchs.
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