One thought I had is many of these causes directly follow from the meme that “Cthulhu Always Swims Left”.
It’s well known that size of government only grows bigger. As you explained above, it’s not surprising that large corporations grows at the same time.
Your “Cause 8” was particularly provoking. I moved from another country to work where I am now. And my observations match almost perfectly with what you wrote. It is an absolutely sad state of affairs; where so much of a person’s identity and well-being is embedded in this organization with sole purpose of profit making; and where so much of a person’s interactions are with people who’s only relationship with you is that you’re both working for the same entity to make profits.
Not sure if you purposely want to avoid potentially fraught discussion with politics, but much of above reminds me of general criticisms towards modern day leftism.
(First comment, might as well say thank you for writing the maze series. Certainly got me to think.)
I’m one of the mods, and wanted to give some context for the “purposefully avoid politically fraught discussion” thing. The overall LessWrong site-culture aims to discuss politics sparingly and carefully, since political discussion tends to end up taking over any size that allows it. (That’s not to say we do it never, but it’s not a primary feature of the site, and it’s something we somewhat discourage from newer users who haven’t absorbed as much of the site culture)
That all said, your comment seemed generally relevant. I agree that thinking about how mazes relate to government and politics is ultimately pretty important but I wouldn’t encourage it as the first thing you do here.
(don’t want this discussion to take over the whole thread, so am locking replies to this thread, but you can PM me, either on Intercom (bottom right) or via my user page if you want to ask more questions about that)
One thought I had is many of these causes directly follow from the meme that “Cthulhu Always Swims Left”.
It’s well known that size of government only grows bigger. As you explained above, it’s not surprising that large corporations grows at the same time.
Your “Cause 8” was particularly provoking. I moved from another country to work where I am now. And my observations match almost perfectly with what you wrote. It is an absolutely sad state of affairs; where so much of a person’s identity and well-being is embedded in this organization with sole purpose of profit making; and where so much of a person’s interactions are with people who’s only relationship with you is that you’re both working for the same entity to make profits.
Not sure if you purposely want to avoid potentially fraught discussion with politics, but much of above reminds me of general criticisms towards modern day leftism.
(First comment, might as well say thank you for writing the maze series. Certainly got me to think.)
I’m interested to hear more about your experience here.
Hey escape_the_maze, welcome to the forum!
I’m one of the mods, and wanted to give some context for the “purposefully avoid politically fraught discussion” thing. The overall LessWrong site-culture aims to discuss politics sparingly and carefully, since political discussion tends to end up taking over any size that allows it. (That’s not to say we do it never, but it’s not a primary feature of the site, and it’s something we somewhat discourage from newer users who haven’t absorbed as much of the site culture)
That all said, your comment seemed generally relevant. I agree that thinking about how mazes relate to government and politics is ultimately pretty important but I wouldn’t encourage it as the first thing you do here.
(don’t want this discussion to take over the whole thread, so am locking replies to this thread, but you can PM me, either on Intercom (bottom right) or via my user page if you want to ask more questions about that)