nonamemanemo

I have no perception of what a workplace should be. That is up to the individuals who actually do work together or alone. Apparently its some other people who have ideas of what a workplace should be because every workplace these days is the same generic adult playground (with free drinks and snacks and open collaboration!).

I would prefer if everyone just worked from home, or in a shared community workshop, or private studio, or coffee shop, or bar, or wherever they fucking want. WeWork is nothing more but a modern spin on Office Space culture. If people like that, I am happy it is another option available to those who enjoy working in that kind of space. Just make sure you don't think you have stumbled upon the holy grail of work spaces, and push it on everyone who is looking for work.

Don't worry, you aren't the only one. I long to be transported to a time or place where humans weren't so accepting... no, seeking such blatant disrespect to their personal dignity and craft.

It seems to be one facet of a theme of infantilization and youth glorification in work culture and society at large. I am not sure whether it has any relationship with the rise of the "social" plague in industry, and the widespread infiltration of VC onto college campuses (and now elementary school playgrounds), where the youth are increasingly primed for dependency through the advertising and systematic denial of experiences.

Offices for adults these days are becoming more like playgrounds, and playgrounds for kids are becoming more like jails. I can't understand all the psychodynamics at play, but something is clearly broken with the way we treat our youth and our narrowly defined notions of "fun".

Work culture is not about the worker or the work anymore, it is about creating an interdependent unit of labor. But if neither the quality of work nor the quality of life for the worker is emphasized, I am not sure what the purpose is besides to maintain social order.

Great points, and fits my observations of this post-technology culture. Distaste and disgust are systematically being moderated out of this community, along with creativity and risk.

To the Church of YC congregation, Sam Altman worshippers, VC plantation hands, and michaelochurch haters... why didn't you kill yourself already when your parents slammed you for getting your first A-? The majority of you are only here because you want to fit in, so props to michaelochurch for always bringing the realness.

Vonnegut's summary is a good one, and I agree that the entire book could have been fully summarized in so few words - the hard question is what are those select few words capable of seeding all other possible stories? For me, the book made many good cases that there is something deeper and quite simple about all storytelling, without ever specifically defining it. I guess that is why storytelling is still such an interesting practice.

Most human stories of any sort can be tied to the monomyth, as described in Joseph Campbell's The Hero of a Thousand Faces [0], which George Lucas has directly credited as an inspiration for his storytelling. The cinematographic aspects of the movie likely have similar inspirations, as do the acting styles of the cast, the arrangements of the set designers, of the paintings of good ol' Ralph McQuarrie... and so on. As life is, so art too is recursive.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Fac...