#Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English
this is one of a [series] and they’re all fantastic
“Software is cheap now this changes everything” no, no it’s not. Software is much more expensive now, but it’s cheap _for you_ because _your_ bills are subsidized by a tectonic amount of venture capital and labor exploitation. You aren’t paying for the world’s bandwidth bills or the environmental impact of the server farms or warehouses full of underpaid labor in foreign countries to make your software, but that’s still what your software costs. All you’re doing is freeloading off exploitation.
This is like #knitting.
I am 60+ hours into a project I will gift. I am less than ⅓ of the way done. And there will be 20-30 hours of additional work once I complete the primary knitting. Call it 200 hours.
At minimum wage in #BC that'd be $3480 #CAD, not including materials.
It is only cost effective as a gift because it is **my** time. I am underwriting this. I would not gift it if someone else was underwriting it, because that gives them control of ME. I'll exploit myself, tyvm.