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Ryan Streur
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First published at the dawn of the internet age in 2004, Hackers & Painters is an interesting read in 2016. It's a dramatic foreshadow of many of the perspectives and narratives which would define the culture of those who came to call the internet home. In particular I'm struck by the chapter "What You Can't Say." It seems like that chapter would read very differently had it been published after the election of 2016.
— Dec 23, 2016 02:52PM
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Ryan Streur
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The chapter "Mind the Gap" is all about why wealth inequality is really perfectly reasonable and acceptable. His concept of the sort of person who would reject wealth inequality, a rejection which he first refers to as the argument of a child, seems to be an obvious straw man. He is arguing against a person who says "everyone should have the same amount of money," when the real argument is less simplistic.
— Dec 26, 2016 12:58PM
Ryan Streur
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Graham continues to take positions which would be palatable to, if not directly referential to, Silicon Valley libertarians. More so far in his chapter, "How to Make Wealth. That doesn't make them wrong per se, but the objection to teleological rejection sounds kind of neck-beard-y to be.
— Dec 25, 2016 05:13PM
