the word studio notebook

I'm a freelance writer, designer, and game developer. My name is Will Hindmarch, and this is a casual notebook I keep on the web.
Jun 30 '09
"What he is proposing is down somewhere, on the scale of ethics, well beneath Wal-Mart's policies of no longer hiring any full-time workers so as to avoid health and unemployment insurance. It is in fact some weird sort of neo-feudal, post-contract-worker society, in which he will create a dystopian and eager volunteer-slave system of "attention-paid" enthusiasts (which is to say, people with no other options, and no capital of their own) to create products from which rich people can get richer."

claytoncubitt:

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This is neo-feudal just like Vampire: The Requiem was neo-feudal. Yes, the people at the ground level will continue to produce those things you need to survive — whether the “content” is writing or blood — but the ones getting rich off that, the vassals who shuttle that content from the serfs to the lords, are all vampires, feeding, feeding, feeding. They keep the serfs fed well enough to labor but hungry enough to fear and love the teat, these content-passing vassals, and like vampires they might fight and fuck but they don’t create. They take.

If Chris Anderson thinks neo-feudal stuff this is a great idea, then my love of Wired just dropped by half.

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    Malcom Gladwell, Choire Sicha, assorted others
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