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Comment by newswasboring

2 years ago

I don't understand this rotating crafter thing. Wouldn't you want your crafters to be experts in their craft? How is rotating them making them better at this?

Printmaking requires care and attention, and doesn't pay great. It falls squarely in the 'art career' category, where people choose it for reasons other than comp. If you have to print the same image every day, potentially indefinitely, the type of person who chose to be a printmaker is going to get sick of it.

  • Aah, its a supply side thing. That actually makes sense, I would leave a job too if all I did was write the same html page all day.

    (Don't know if that is a fair analogy, maybe a better one exists on sysadmin side?)

    • Because programming is meta-applicable, competent practitioners will respond to being given the same task over and over by automating it, which isn't a thing if the whole point of what you do is that a human did it manually.

      Princess Nell's observation about the nature of the Dovetail community in the novel Diamond Age applies: this is all very well, but it makes no actual sense without the context of the rest of society, on its own this practice is not tenable.