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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Gazpacho posted:

"Hmm that's an interesting oak dresser you built, but why didn't youjust buy one from ikea and paint it?"

can we please not compare programming to an actual craft like woodworking? it's insanely offensive to conflate the two

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Gazpacho posted:

if it's offensive that's only because there are so many programmers doing lovely work for pay

cf: the english frame riots

this assumes that programming is anything other than lovely, both morally and economically

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Silver Alicorn posted:

programming is necessary to modern society and petty cool. the fact that capitalism makes tech culture lovely is a fault of capitalism, not programming

programming is a symptom of capitalism in that it is unproductive activity that is given vastly disproportionate economic importance and actively harms those who Do Real Labor

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SamDabbers posted:

it is cool and good because it makes computers do more of the labor. computers doing things is p cool actually. the wealth generated from them just needs to be distributed differently.

programming is not Labor in any sense of the word, it is more akin to masturbation

the wealth from those who are paid to program should be forcibly redistributed and the programmers themselves re-educated to become productive members of society

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
programming is an endeavor worthy of respe*vomits never-ending pseudo-mathematical jargon to conceal inherent lack of value*

please give me all your money

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

lol it's super cool that we can have people post stuff that is literally evil without a shred of irony

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