[HN Gopher] Squad Wealth
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Squad Wealth
Author : Kinrany
Score : 38 points
Date : 2020-08-28 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| chrisjarvis wrote:
| I thought I was gonna hate this but I ended up enjoying it a lot
| haha, thanks for sharing!
| analognoise wrote:
| This sounds like the kind of thing a couch surfer with no family
| or job would be really amped by.
| megameter wrote:
| I get the vibe. Squad, maybe not. But collective? Gang? Tribe?
| Yeah, that's been a thing for a while, but it really accelerated
| lately. It's easy to stumble upon the "permeable boundaries"
| Heather Marsh writes of online and create an organism that isn't
| a legal entity and isn't for life. And there's more of them all
| the time.
| legerdemain wrote:
| With the exception of streamers with a substantial regular
| audience, people taking active part in social justice events, and
| devs lucky enough to work on lively community projects, average
| people in my peer group have not started organically bonding into
| bands of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers of the information
| superhighway.
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| For example, I've watched a lot of roommate groups in shared
| houses fall apart as housemates pack up and go home to live with
| their parents.
|
| This essay honestly feels like the author has transferred the
| style and cliches of mid-90s techno-utopianism into an essay
| promoting the benefits of neoprimitivist permaculture, buzzwords
| and all.
| rdiddly wrote:
| I have to hold myself back from "Oh brother"ing and scoffing
| myself to death with this, because I respect the fact that
| they're paying attention and their ideas aren't so mired in the
| past the way mine, basically, are.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| I heard Michael Munfer on a podcast recently taking about higher
| education - that it is being dis-intermediated or broken down
| (cannot remember the right term)
|
| And he suggested a new university that is likely to arise - where
| there is no campus but you are housed with (your squad) you get
| weekly tickets to the Proms or a new theatre etc etc. A whole
| rounded but decentralised education
|
| I think not that squads are our future but the active conscious
| creation of them are
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I am careful with that word. I start with
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad
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| and would expect it to mean "8-14 members" -- if at all possible
| I would call a 20 person organization a Platoon comprised of 2
| squads.
| steveklabnik wrote:
| The article seems to agree with you:
|
| > the ideal squad count is no more than 12.
| Ntrails wrote:
| Which is dumb, because that's around the size forums die
| forever due to lack of individual posters
| Kinrany wrote:
| These squads are supposed to exist in a different format:
| as group chats where everyone knows everyone else.
| BTinfinity wrote:
| With the amount of memes used throughout and constant informal
| langauge i'm not sure if this is a serious post or if i'm missing
| out on a joke. Not really sure if it was trying to put specific
| point across either
| jborichevskiy wrote:
| It's serious, though I agree it's a bit muddled in all the
| memes and references.
|
| The core point as I understood it: the internet is quickly
| blurring the line between a company and a group of friends
| working together. Two of the limiting factors are our
| communication tools and financial/corporate structures.
|
| My take: as this model become more prevalent, more alternatives
| to traditional employment and education routes open up allowing
| creators, researchers, and engineers to work on interesting
| problems without having to find one another through educational
| institutions and corporations.
| goodmattg wrote:
| This essay is both extremely poignant and nearly unintelligible,
| which is a vibe.
| eximius wrote:
| There's a 600 acre plot of relatively cheap land near me that I
| 2/3rds joking suggest me and friends should go in on together and
| start a hi tech commune. So far plenty of interest but no
| commitments. :(
| xur17 wrote:
| What does something like that go for?
| neckardt wrote:
| Looks like in the right location you could get it for around
| $1M: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Mile-156-State-
| Hwy-77-Win...
| ybot wrote:
| It can vary a lot depending on location, but here's a search
| on zillow to give you a sense of the market in California:
|
| https://bit.ly/3gEqOkw
|
| (bitly link, because the URL specifying the search filters is
| unreasonably long)
| modriano wrote:
| Does it have 1+ gigabit service? Plumbing? Roads? How far is it
| to the nearest major airport?
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