Gorse @stokes@meow.social

My worker co-op, Open Data Services, is hiring for two developer roles.

We're employee owned, we work remotely (although UK only), and all the code we write is open source.

See this twitter thread for a summary: https://twitter.com/opendatacoop/status/1539593415977050113

Or go straight to the job ads:
🟣 Data Visualisation Web Developer: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/lmczyo70ip?utm_source=mastodon
🟣 Python Software Developer: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/6cvrnot04p?utm_source=mastodon

Are We Living in Neo-Feudalism?

Well, if you're in Brexitland then feudalism never ended. Nominally there is a parliament run by commoners (who happen to be overwhelmingly rich and privately schooled), but the crown still exercises considerable influence in a lowkey way throughout the whole society.

Even in places which transitioned to a republic, feuding didn't end and it was only the strictly hereditary ruling dynasty aspect which did. The ruling family legitimated by “divine right” is replaced by a more general ruling class legitimated by periodic votes. Feuding dynasties with competing hereditary claims become feuding sections of the ruling class, like megacorporations, with voters being cheerleaders or one or the other power base. And the megacorporations can feud over more than market share, resulting in colonial wars.