Political “work” is maintenance.

[hanspetermeyer@mstdn.ca]

Political “work” is maintenance.
“…For all their fixation on revolutionary design solutions, innovators often find it expedient to ally themselves with the opportunists who already control the more conventional levers of politics and capital. The rest of us are left to navigate the world they have built, and to maintain it as well as we can.”

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