We’ve been trained to think of paid things as obviously valuable, and unpaid work as less important, like you said. To the point where most peiple can’t imagine not being told what to do.

I keep thinking women used to hold up a lot of economically invisible structures, and were lured into monetizing their contribution in the job markets. The job market needed women more than women neded the job market. The bait was personal financial independence, but it was at the expense of unmeasured social capital. The market absorbed a huge quantity of labor that had previously existed outside formal economic accounting. Care work, food preparation, child supervision, elder care, therapy, tutoring, cleaning, emotional support, and social coordination increasingly became services to be bought, outsourced, or institutionalized. This made the economy look larger, because more human activity is now monetized. But some of that “growth” was not genuine civilizational surplus. It was the conversion of formerly embedded relationships into paid transactions. We are now, possibly, at the point of realizing we have misjudged the value of unpaid work and it’s scope. This point is skewed female, obviously, and not the complete picture, but still.

The philosophy I’m building #decentnewsroom around is that no article is an island. Curation matters on multiple levels. Publications, follow packs, tag clusters. What I’d like to achieve is to have readers return to it even if they are not reminded by a newsletter or a DM that a publication exists, but to treat it like a nice place to hang out and return to voluntarily.

You made it! Survived the obstacle course of the deployment 🤣

There’s currently a list of one. is curating Newsroom magazine https://decentnewsroom.com/mag/newsroom-magazine-65b0d6 Anyone who’d like to suggest content is welcome to reach out. Anyone who wants to become a curator, also. The curated collections are nostr events, themselves.

Printers are total primadonnas 🙄

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We used to have wells in the tens of thousands in central/continental Europe and many local refineries. We’ve never extracted it all, just talked ourselves out of self-sufficiency.

There were multiple contradictory reports, but it was mostly a power play, because the government controlls the prices to a large degree. In a normal market, the prices would go up and logistics could be paid for extra distribution, instead only the demand went up when people watched the news. The preper instincts are alive and well.