While I agree with some of the quoted writing, I find it interesting that the writer holds up Wikipedia as a great example of consensus based work. I understand that the only requirement for contribution to Wikipedia is registering a certain number of hours before posting. I don’t define that as proving knowledge or expertise. Perhaps I am wrong but I much rather pick and choose the writers I want to read and direct my dollars to my choices.
agree. wikipedia is no ideal of communal and consensus based work, dominated as it is by shadowy pr firms who control its powerful editors. still there is at its core a kind of ideal...so i get where he's coming from.
I agree it’s an ideal - I still chuckle at how easy it was for them to track back edits made from IP addresses at the Trump White House, so there is SOME oversight.
"Hell, most of my friends and colleges from the media have gone done this path, as have I.
And its not all bad of course--especially on an individual basis."
Yes indeed, we all need to pay our bills.
Furthermore we should never underestimate the power if capitalism to turn all of us, no matter what our politics, into calculating capitalist centers--in fact, as Branko Milanovic has argued we do not need the capitalist mode of production in factories if we all have become capitalists centers ourselves."
Maybe modern capitalism and modern leftism go hand in hand--I guess we could ask the Chinese.
While I agree with some of the quoted writing, I find it interesting that the writer holds up Wikipedia as a great example of consensus based work. I understand that the only requirement for contribution to Wikipedia is registering a certain number of hours before posting. I don’t define that as proving knowledge or expertise. Perhaps I am wrong but I much rather pick and choose the writers I want to read and direct my dollars to my choices.
agree. wikipedia is no ideal of communal and consensus based work, dominated as it is by shadowy pr firms who control its powerful editors. still there is at its core a kind of ideal...so i get where he's coming from.
I agree it’s an ideal - I still chuckle at how easy it was for them to track back edits made from IP addresses at the Trump White House, so there is SOME oversight.
"Hell, most of my friends and colleges from the media have gone done this path, as have I.
And its not all bad of course--especially on an individual basis."
Yes indeed, we all need to pay our bills.
Furthermore we should never underestimate the power if capitalism to turn all of us, no matter what our politics, into calculating capitalist centers--in fact, as Branko Milanovic has argued we do not need the capitalist mode of production in factories if we all have become capitalists centers ourselves."
Maybe modern capitalism and modern leftism go hand in hand--I guess we could ask the Chinese.