Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But the flip side of this appeal to heroism is that it only worked to the extent that ...
But the flip side of this appeal to heroism is that it only worked to the extent that it convinced workers to *genuinely care* about the things they made. When you miss you mother's funeral and pass on having kids in order to meet deadline and ship a product, the prospect of making that product *worse* is unthinkable.
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