Will have to wait to watch it until I get home from work. Despite snow flurries and a "feels like" of 8 (F) / -13 (Celsius), there are still people marching in to stare at youtube, etc this un-fine Saturday. To think I could be at home completely entombed within a quilt!
I have often thought, however, that we're already living in a kind of dystopia -- between everyone constantly starting at phones, human customers forced to act like robots by following scripts and following corporate policies with no creativity whatsoever, robots pretending to be perky humans who would probably have very punchable faces -- and that's not getting started with politics and corpocracy.
Oh, we're *definitely* dystopia adjacent - and not just recently! The more you understand exactly HOW the 'System' works the more you appreciate the idea of dystopia. Cyberpunk *really* leans into that instinctive resistance to corporate bullshit & exploitation. ONE reason why I love it so much! I was never a happy little drone & the people around me definitely knew that! Probably one reason why my boss frowned so much (sorry, Liz!) and I was only promoted that ONE time... [lol]
Working on a Saturday? By choice or is it part of your normal hours? On the few occasions that I worked weekends we always got 'double time' which was nice. I would rather be at home though - but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do....
I've worked every other Saturday ever since March 2011. It used to be worse: pre-COVID, we were open 9-5 on Fridays and Sats, and 9-6 rest of the week (except Sunday). Now we're 9-5 during the week, and 9-1 on Saturdays. It's not overtime: pre-COVID I was 32 hours a week and getting a Saturday shift was a bonus; now I work 40 hours and I take a half-day during the week, usually mornings so I can get oil changes, doctor's visits, etc. I was hoping to get 'work' done, but we were bizarrely busy despite the biting wind.
A quote from Cory Doctorow's ENSHITTIFICATION that you'll like, and which comes to mind from this video (which I'm enjoying!):
"It turned out that “If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product” was wishful thinking. It was truer to say, “Even if you pay for the product, you’re the product if the company can get away with treating you as the product.”"
Decades ago I was part of a team relocating thousands of people from across the country onto a new office complex. The weekend before we moved them in we spent 10 hours on Saturday & Sunday getting everything prepped. For that 20 hours we were paid a weeks money. Then we worked 50 hours in the following week and had overtime for that too. The project lasted 10 months... After which I was *exhausted* but my bank balance was VERY healthy!
Glad you're enjoying the vid - its a pretty good one... although it has prompted me to start digging out some old Cyberpunk books to read later in the year! I was going to read one anyway, but it looks like its going to have some company... [grin]
Have you seen that multipart history of cyberpunk on youtube? The guy goes decade by decade across mediums, so there's books, movies, and video games. The videos got progressively longer, too, like nearing an hour. I had no idea how pervasive cyberpunk ideas were in video games. I was just looking for it and it's been BURIED by Cyberpunk 2077 stuff.
Cyberpunk is probably my fave (or ONE of my top fave) SF sub-genres so I *might* have seen at least some of those vids. It certainly rings a few bells!
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Will have to wait to watch it until I get home from work. Despite snow flurries and a "feels like" of 8 (F) / -13 (Celsius), there are still people marching in to stare at youtube, etc this un-fine Saturday. To think I could be at home completely entombed within a quilt!
I have often thought, however, that we're already living in a kind of dystopia -- between everyone constantly starting at phones, human customers forced to act like robots by following scripts and following corporate policies with no creativity whatsoever, robots pretending to be perky humans who would probably have very punchable faces -- and that's not getting started with politics and corpocracy.
Oh, we're *definitely* dystopia adjacent - and not just recently! The more you understand exactly HOW the 'System' works the more you appreciate the idea of dystopia. Cyberpunk *really* leans into that instinctive resistance to corporate bullshit & exploitation. ONE reason why I love it so much! I was never a happy little drone & the people around me definitely knew that! Probably one reason why my boss frowned so much (sorry, Liz!) and I was only promoted that ONE time... [lol]
Working on a Saturday? By choice or is it part of your normal hours? On the few occasions that I worked weekends we always got 'double time' which was nice. I would rather be at home though - but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do....
I've worked every other Saturday ever since March 2011. It used to be worse: pre-COVID, we were open 9-5 on Fridays and Sats, and 9-6 rest of the week (except Sunday). Now we're 9-5 during the week, and 9-1 on Saturdays. It's not overtime: pre-COVID I was 32 hours a week and getting a Saturday shift was a bonus; now I work 40 hours and I take a half-day during the week, usually mornings so I can get oil changes, doctor's visits, etc. I was hoping to get 'work' done, but we were bizarrely busy despite the biting wind.
A quote from Cory Doctorow's ENSHITTIFICATION that you'll like, and which comes to mind from this video (which I'm enjoying!):
"It turned out that “If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product” was wishful thinking. It was truer to say, “Even if you pay for the product, you’re the product if the company can get away with treating you as the product.”"
Decades ago I was part of a team relocating thousands of people from across the country onto a new office complex. The weekend before we moved them in we spent 10 hours on Saturday & Sunday getting everything prepped. For that 20 hours we were paid a weeks money. Then we worked 50 hours in the following week and had overtime for that too. The project lasted 10 months... After which I was *exhausted* but my bank balance was VERY healthy!
Glad you're enjoying the vid - its a pretty good one... although it has prompted me to start digging out some old Cyberpunk books to read later in the year! I was going to read one anyway, but it looks like its going to have some company... [grin]
Have you seen that multipart history of cyberpunk on youtube? The guy goes decade by decade across mediums, so there's books, movies, and video games. The videos got progressively longer, too, like nearing an hour. I had no idea how pervasive cyberpunk ideas were in video games. I was just looking for it and it's been BURIED by Cyberpunk 2077 stuff.
Cyberpunk is probably my fave (or ONE of my top fave) SF sub-genres so I *might* have seen at least some of those vids. It certainly rings a few bells!
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