That’s not to romanticise the 20thC. Being a salaryman or a Company Man might have been secure, but all reports were that it was boring as shit and often degrading, restrictive, and hypocritical, not to mention capital-p Patriarchal in every way that counted. We’re putting a higher value now on individual performance which is just another value. But to be a ‘hacker’ and to put social value on that hacking is a lonely way to be, for all of us.