How hustle culture took over advertising

Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by TeMPOraL on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:38PM (#18384194)

I'm afraid that without some systemic-level changes, donating less time to work and more towards infrastructure maintenance would only be giving free gifts to corporations and small entrepreneurs alike, who will be happy to put the improved infrastructure to use in making more money for themselves.

We need a way for improving things where, when a community improves its own space, the gains don't immediately get privatized.

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Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by Regardsyjc on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:23PM (#18384589)

I think one of the biggest public infrastructure issues in the United States is the lack of equal education. The education system of the USA is not fair and inherently unequal when schools are funded from the taxes of its local communities.

Other public infrastructure issues could be lack of cheap, affordable internet access, clean water, and health care.

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Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by robocat on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:46PM (#18385809)

Even when there is some subsidising towards educating children that are unfortunate enough to have poor parents, you still end up with very unequal outcomes.

Go down to Figure 53 of this: http://www.nzchildren.co.nz which shows only 1/3 of the poorest 20% attain a high enough level of education to even enter university, while 3/4 of the richest 20% do (the relation is fairly linear for the rest).

Financing the education of children with poor parents helps, it just doesn't equalise on average. Of course it does help a few outlier children a lot.

In NZ we add extra subsidies to schools with poor parents through a system of deciles - but it doesn't offset the difference that much.

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Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by eiaoa on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:56PM (#18385887)

> Even when there is some subsidising towards educating children that are unfortunate enough to have poor parents, you still end up with very unequal outcomes.

I think the idea with funding education more equitably is to remove existing barriers that are created by policy, not about creating totally equal outcomes.

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Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by eiaoa on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:53PM (#18384327)

I think we're on the same page. I interpreted "infrastructure" primarily to be social and political infrastructure, not physical infrastructure. Fixing it would undoubtedly need to include greater resistance to exploitation by powerful private interests.

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Re:How hustle culture took over advertising by TeMPOraL on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:04PM (#18386394)

I think this conclusion really works for both physical and social infrastructure. It's cool to work on either, but it's cooler if you don't feel like being an unpaid volunteer in someone else's business.

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