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by digi_owl 3264 days ago
VC discovered the "makers" hype, and things turned "weird"...
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Because anything against capitalist thought gets mulched up, repackaged, and spat out. If you can commodify being a maker, you take away from the people who are actually subverting basic consumer thinking.

I think we're seeing the same problem in the modern form of the "gig economy" versus what people initially idealised for a freer, less contractual workforce.

That was a good read on a saturday.