Cory Doctorow is the kind of person who locks his car doors when a black person walks by while tweeting about social justice and fairness of algorithms
Really tired of people living in their own bubble drawing broad generalizations about the entire internet. If the author doesn't go beyond Facebook, that's her choice. She doesn't know what's out there, but she will tell everyone that it's not there.
This doesn't read as hollow managerial nonsense. He uses familiar practices and refers to them by what they are called in corporate culture so that others understand what he is doing without needing to go into excruciating detail. These aren't his techniques but those used around the world.
Your criticisms are a reflection on you more than the author. You seem to believe that human relationships are divine in nature and ought not be managed. There is something eerie about it, almost creationist, as if the word God is at the tip of your tongue, waiting for that moment to be used to explain how thy Lord hath giveth one another and shall taketh thy away or some other load of religious nuttcraft.
The proof of the effectiveness of the OPs communication tools lies in the results.
Elect a turd into office and the turd will treat everything under turd control as an asset or liability. The turd will sell libraries and whatever else is of value.
In praise of being paid to write unnecessary tests that break within hours after writing them and then spending hours incrementally fixing these tests as they break with every. fucking. commit
Dunning and Kruger explained how people drastically overestimate their value. The author won't be earning what he thinks he deserves, isn't working on projects he thinks he deserves, and doesn't get the promotions he thinks he deserves wherever he goes. His reality may never change for him and that's his cross to carry.
Executives at a French company couldn't treat people as resources and fire at will because France has employee protection laws (sounds good but only in theory). So, the executives made employees miserable, intending to push them to quit. Instead, employees killed themselves. You want to fire people but you can't, so what do you do? Make them not want to be there anymore.
There is a case to be made that these employees would have killed themselves if they were fired. This is an important distinction because it's the loss of employment, not harassment, that lead to suicide.
It's crazy to think that there are people here who will read this and think that with this given, firing should be illegal and executives charged for manslaughter. You are thinking dangerously and need to study history. Or, you are French and there is no difference.
You say this as if a government with the capacity would save the day? The government already has the capacity to solve problems but this is the best that it can achieve. This is it. It's not being held back because it only had a trillion dollar budget to work with.
The Linux Foundation strikes me as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Who would suspect that The Mother Theresa Foundation was anything but philanthropic? And why is The Mother Theresa Foundation involved with Remington Arms Company and the NRA? Something isn't right here..
Kansas was running on fumes for a long time by not taxing. Now, this? One group of idealists were replaced with another with no more sensibility than their counterparts.
These are people who are competing with unionized drivers at UPS. Why feel any compassion towards them about their work conditions? They are only serving their own interests.
I'm unclear whether you're OK with spending other people's money but not your own. The fund supporting this initiative accepts donations. Have you donated? Have you volunteered? No, you haven't and you won't.
Rust doesn't seem to lend any advantages for this kind of tool, but I'm sure it took weeks to write (months?) rather than just a couple of hours. What can this do that bash scripts couldn't? This migration tool uses plain sql files. I'm not hating but questioning the use of a complicated language to do no more than what native shell scripts can, with ease.