Has been several months since the world suffer one of the most precise and dedicated zero day exploits of our history.
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We learned that most websites are failures.
You can stuff a bunch of crap into a template and drag and drop stuff around... but with bandwidth is tight because everyone is watching netflix all day - and when the website doesn't say any important up-to-date information - that it really doesn't do it's real job for the company.
"Web design" is a perversion - and "making a website" - is a horror. We MUST bring back normal thoughtful design thinking that isn't guided by fear. Our government sites (That should be EXTREMELY easy to use and accessibly to everyone) are a total mess.
It seems that most businesses and people have seen just how close to the edge they really are. In the US - almost everyone - (even the rich people) have leveraged most of their stuff/money at all times - in a way that a 3-month shut down just totally destroys them. There is a lot of month-to-month money-management. Corporations can just kinda shut down without much responsibility for their workers - and the people generally have kinda let go of their local economies. The idea that 'business people are bad' and that making money is for selfish people - has given way to a situation where even the most kind well-meaning people are dependent on the system they claim to detest or avoid. It's probably a good wake up call! If we don't design better systems - and create meaningful businesses with value for our communities (ourselves!)- then we have no power - and we'll be at the mercy of whatever companies do take charge. We'd rather bake bread than move boxes for amazon. Why do we send water from New York to California - and water from California to New York? It's more lucrative for the common person to just do things right. Why work at McDonald's when you should be able to make more money running your own little burger stand?
We wrote an article that we thought we be helpful for our community - and spent a whole dedicated week to figure out how keep local business afloat / but when we shared it - we were mostly just told "Thinking that through right now isn't something we have time for" or "It's already hard enough. Why are you kicking us while were down" types of things. : /
perpetual.education/content-strate...
It seems like having some normal - clear information about your business status on your publicly accessible website makes a great deal of sense... but - our web has been split up. Some people just use instagram as their main 'web' - and ignore everything else. Facebook and all that stuff are more clearly than ever - dividing us instead of bringing us together in any form of "social network." Google just says "closed" for everything. Why do we need caviar and postmates - when you could pay the dishwasher (who's out of a job) - to drive the food? Caviar takes like $30 a delivery! For a dishwasher - just 3 deliveries a day would be more than their regular salary!? It's a wonder that anyone stayed in business before COVID.
It will probably be all OK - and no one will learn from it / except maybe the businesses based in exploitation. But - maybe some of this "neighborly bartering" and sharing that's happening around town will stick. We hope so.
That's what we think (tonight).