Re:Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
by renewiltord on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:08AM
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It’s socialist intelligentsia lingo. For whatever reason, that field writes in a style that favors high-specificity jargon.
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Re:Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
by dalbasal on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:19AM
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I know what kind of lingo it is, just remarking on how much of it there is in every sentence.
IDK if I'd call the jargon high-specificity though. I'd say that it tends to be broad and abstract. "Suburban and exurban socialization" isn't highly specific.
As I mentioned though, it's not very different from the tech world jargon that's more common on HN. IE, when we talk about "disruptive," "democratizing," "platform" or somesuch. These are loaded terms too.
I was just noting that with concepts like "alienation," it's hard to imagine explaining it to someone without referring to past centuries, artisan candlemakers or somesuch.
Re:Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
by neolog on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:48PM
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I think you're saying "alienation" means a specific historical technological transition about moving from hand-looms to industrial looms. I googled for it but I don't see that definition supported. In the sources I found it seems to be a broader concept than that. It seems still applicable today afaict, not hard to understand in modern context.