Hacking should be recognized as an arts and crafts category.
It is a bit more abstract than making music or painting or messing with materials (wood, stone, metal etc), but it pushes the same pleasure buttons. Its the simple joy of building and sharing stuff.
In a professional context programming mutates and becomes what organized society and economies want it to be. Another cog in the machine.
Coding for money is no more or less happy than cooking, making music or applying any other intrinsically pleasurable dexterity for money.
What is intrinsically fun and something you would do "for free" becomes draining, stressful and devoid of purpose. The "purpose" in organized work is dictated by large scale patterns of supply, demand, monetisation games and organizational structures.
In a sense what we are missing are meta-tinkerers who would (for free and for fun) hack society and its economy to be a more meaningful place, one that does not make us to need to "retire from".
It is a bit more abstract than making music or painting or messing with materials (wood, stone, metal etc), but it pushes the same pleasure buttons. Its the simple joy of building and sharing stuff.
In a professional context programming mutates and becomes what organized society and economies want it to be. Another cog in the machine.
Coding for money is no more or less happy than cooking, making music or applying any other intrinsically pleasurable dexterity for money.
What is intrinsically fun and something you would do "for free" becomes draining, stressful and devoid of purpose. The "purpose" in organized work is dictated by large scale patterns of supply, demand, monetisation games and organizational structures.
In a sense what we are missing are meta-tinkerers who would (for free and for fun) hack society and its economy to be a more meaningful place, one that does not make us to need to "retire from".