i’m going long agency maxxing as a cultural topic and thing that more people explicitly try to optimize for

I think “agency maxing” is a resonant topic especially when you consider we have high tech sector unemployment. 

But — this unemployment has been ongoing for months, and despite the persistence of the meme there really hasn’t been a ton of breakthrough projects, any more than when we had full tech employment (or so it feels)

Watching this has actually pushed me towards a type of traditionalism. Despite the popularity of the “you can just do things meme” and market incentives subconsciously pushing towards initiative — most people don’t take it. It suggests a need to me for a structures people can rely on beyond the mere market 

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To me “you can just do things” implies you can forge your own way independent of that though, and they don’t seem to be able to do that either

yep so many of the 'you can just do things' ppl are either rich or have another way of not meaningfully participating in the default world

jr swe's are somewhat fucked right now and they aren't going to be able to agency their way into jobs