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A comment on Gambiarra: repair culture (2015).

Re:Gambiarra: repair culture (2015) by solidsnack9000 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:49AM (#14725801) 

    When the maker culture becomes eminently entrepreneurial,
    we should wonder what mechanisms are set into motion. It
    may as well be the old capitalist drive to turn the
    critique to itself into the gears of its own reinvention
    gaining ground. Could we ever escape that path?
Lately when I read things like this I wonder, how are the people in the movement -- whatever movement -- supposed to make a living without being entrepreneurial?
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Re:Gambiarra: repair culture (2015) by cfelix on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:26PM (#14726252)
It's not about being able to make a living, it's about how much do we really need to make a living.
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Re:Gambiarra: repair culture (2015) by solidsnack9000 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:59PM (#14728019)
Things seem kind of bimodal there, though. If you're part of a new technology or movement, generally there aren't any stable jobs with retirement plans. So someone has to get entrepreneurial...and then they are CEO.
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