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As I said "He criticized the term, for being poorly defined, not the concept".
We hear the term “toxic masculinity” a lot these days. As someone who writes a lot about manhood, what does it mean to you? Oh boy, I’m not sure if I really believe in it. Why? It seems like a label put on a certain type of behavior from the outside. It’s just such a vague term that it’s hard to address.
> the movie is really about the negatives of extreme, prolonged toxic masculinity
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the book the movie is based on would disagree with you.
Palahniuk: “Throughout childhood, people tell you to be less sensitive. Adulthood begins the moment someone tells you that you need to be more sensitive.”
For one, he has said he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity.
He criticized the term, for being poorly defined, not the concept:
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/a-conversation-with-chuc...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fight-club-2-chuck-palahniuk_...
To make the company more profitable at expense of your health.
The whole activity of estimation, planning and reviewing is often just a way to implement micromanagement.
What is the benefit? It pushes engineers to spend 100% of their time on urgent tasks and stop doing any learning, exploration of new ideas, discussing alternatives, socializing.
[Over]committing creates a constant sense of urgency that leads to higher productivity in the short term. Unsurprisingly, it's a source of burnout.
There is no "west" and there is no "Judeo-Christian" culture.
There are, and has been, hundreds of different cultures. Some have similarities, some are profoundly different.
(I'm not trying to dismiss your whole point: I agree with everything else you wrote)
Indeed donations are far, far from enough.
GPS, GSM, fiber optics, Internet, touchscreens, semiconductors, satellites, most of chemistry and aviation - all were researched and developed using taxpayer money.
And it took billions.
Now all public R&D is being destroyed and yet FLOSS fits exactly in the category.
We desperately need large, global, R&D funding not some people throwing some bucks at patreon.