Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.

I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11329

…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us @rysiek@mstdn.social @cstross@wandering.shop Guinan said it. This scene still gives me chills every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T9TUeapBSQ What writers. What a pair of actors.

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William Pietri @williampietri@sfba.social
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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Great stuff. For a long time I've thought that business has shifted toward thinking of customers as livestock. Monopolists and oligopolists don't have to treat customers like respected peers, so it's easy to drift to treating them like an exploitable resource.

I think that has laid the groundwork for the slaver mentality, one where disregard turns into a sick glee.

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