#maciejceglowsky

I’ve thought about Pinboard as trying to create a habitat for different kinds of users and make it useful, and then letting things happen on their own.

I don't care about bloat because it's inefficient. I care about it because it makes the web inaccessible. Keeping the Web simple keeps it awesome.

Our software systems treat labor as a completely fungible commodity, and workers as interchangeable cogs. We try to put a nice spin on this frightening view of labor by calling it the "gig economy". The gig economy disguises precariousness as empowerment. You can pick your own hours, work only as much as you want, and set your own schedule. For professionals, that kind of freedom is attractive. For people in low-wage jobs, it's a disaster. A job has predictable hours, predictable pay, and confers stability and social standing. The gig economy takes all that away. You work whatever hours are available, with no guarantee that there will be more work tomorrow.