Just to add to this, actually Ottoman Empire's parliament had more representation for minorities than the current parliament of Turkey which is a funny fact. Despite this, conditions were already bad for minorities as you mentioned. Look at the Turkish Parliament now, Kurdish representation is constantly being oppressed, there is almost no representation for other minorities such as Christians, Armenians.
I completely agree with you but just for the sake of completeness, there is one Armenian MP in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_Paylan This doesn't change much though since MP representation/population ratio is ridiculous, and the whole system is corrupt (and biased against minorities) anyway.
I have spent there 2 weeks in 2013. It was an amazing experience. What I liked the most was that it was more like a commune. Everybody helped with cleaning, doing the dishes and cooking. Everybody was eager to learn from each other, treated each other with great respect and there were no signs of age discrimination. Today, I am still in touch with people I met at the village. Some of them are way older and some of them are way younger than I am. I wish I could go back to see how it is now.
I do not think that this is a simple black and white separation,but rather a dialectical one.
I used to find myself most of the times confused while using technologies whose CEOs, mission I do not agree with. It felt as if I was contradicting myself. But then I realized the dialectical nature of this relationship which is if you want to create something better, improve something it is only natural that you will do so using the existing tools available in your world.
A great example is Facebook. There are things you might not agree with, you might hate it but if you look closer you will see volunteer groups to political campaigns to marches and protests which are organized only via Facebook. One of such political activities one day could as well change Facebook or the world we live in drastically.
You can apply this to other cases. You might have an anti-capitalist philosophy podcast hosted on Amazon or Spotify or Apple which in essence contradicts the very existence of such companies. But in the end you are using them to deliver your message, cause change etc.
I am curious about what others think about this and how they feel about looking at it from a dialectical point of view as I am continuously thinking about this and still forming my thoughts.
I thought so too, but another commenter here found that they were repeatedly reported on during that time, just not tagged as the main subject of the articles. (But maybe this change still does reflect a different level of editorial interest in them during that time.)
Sure, but how many column inches did those articles occupy? And how does that compare to the number of column inches dedicated to consumer capitalist interests?!
</chomsky>
The goalpost has now moved, and the new question is obviously impossible to answer.
It's also worth noting that "consumer capitalist interests" is a term I've never heard and, more importantly, neither has Chomsky, who never used the term.
My perspective the market is already structured this way. In the freelance consulting world, I see two types of competent programmers:
1) People who can take high level business goals, articulate them into software APIs/specifications, and then implement the code
2) People who can take specifications and deliver code
People in the first group tend to earn upper middle class incomes. People in the second group already tend to earn proletarian incomes. The upside here for programmers is immediate payout for tightly-specified work.
If AI can write an interesting sentence, it's clear that soon enough it will be able to write software. Especially software that is a variation on a typical CRUD app. My prediction is the biggest value add activity will be having the experience to know what is possible and then knowing what and how to direct the AI to write.
There's no reason that slow programmers should be denied work, but they should not be compensated at the same clip as fast programmers. Great developers often go into management if they want to make more money. The current market dynamic punishes developers for getting "good" and drains the programming market of its best talent.
https://compoundinterest.info