" all the decadence and avarice now will seem like a hazy impossible dream" decadence and avarice? oh, yeah -- but seriously, i have always dreamt of that. many thoughts. lets have a workshop thereupon. i know, i'm one to talk. still had to throw it out there. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- *Be seeing you.*

Most excellent responses, folks! Apologies for delay, but I'd like to reply to ya'll as I've been pondering the bubble/burst over this week. Responses in-line below. p.s. "Bubble/Burst" might be a good theme for an event or art show about this topic... p.p.s. Found some interesting opinions from "the crowd": https://www.quora.com/What-was-Silicon-Valley-like-after-the-bubble-burst-i… (last updated ~1.5 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231352 (~4 years ago) On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is a powerful story, thank you for sharing. It encourages me to remember that when we commune, we will be surprised by what confluence occurs; we will grow from the stories, perspectives, and lives that we reveal to each other. Thanks for sharing the photos too, I appreciate that the sacredness of a "sanctuary" has an essence more powerful than the "tiny house", "ecovillage", or even "commune" rhetoric folks today may use for atypical or non-normative forms of shelter. Hard to beat a direct request like that ;) Indeed, hacking on shelter as a resilience strategy (more robust to economic recession than wage-slavery) would be an amazing workshop opportunity! I dwelled on the same sentence, Faust ;) it's poetry! On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> wrote: I can't thank you enough for this message, Praveen. Others not on this thread have also expressed similar sentiments to me in person ;) This is a very intriguing space for theorizing. Here's a guess, I imagine three primary clusters of layoffs, firings, or hiring freezes: (a) the "bootstrap" sub-sector, consisting of the many vague, absurd, small startups that make up something like the "long tail" of tech employment in the bay area. Many of these companies will file for bankruptcy and new ones will not find funding to get off the ground for some time. (b) the "opulent" employers, especially companies chasing the mega-corp front-runners like Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. Some of these employers will simply fire folks and down-scale (a la austerity) in attempt to maintain Chief-level and manager-level salaries, so they may ride out the recession as long as possible, perhaps even survive long enough to re-hire in several years. Other companies will bottom-out entirely and file for bankruptcy, which no one will expect until it is too late. E.g. *Snapchat*... just saying... (c) the service industry employers who serve one or both of (a) and (b) or perhaps have some other contingency within the tech sector in their business models. E.g. Workplace / lunch catering companies. Very intriguing how co-dependence and resiliency may be laid bare here as you suggest. What does reconciliation look like in this context? And what of building trust? Hear that sudo? We better start kissing ass to CCL! :P ;) The most obvious strategy that came to my mind to be robust to tech income (salary / wage income) from our supporters via online donations ( https://gratipay.com/sudoroom) is to prepare to start offering direct services like computer repair with the extra volunteer labor we may gain as people go between jobs. We could learn a lot from the Free Geek http://www.freegeek.org/ and Repair Cafe http://repaircafe.org/ models. Also, Marc's project of digitizing those two vending machines we already have in the space could provide a great way to sell products either that we create ourselves (for donations to sudo) or products we can acquire in bulk at low prices (economy of scale) and sell to ourselves and the wider local community with some reasonable margin. E.g. pre-installed pirateboxes, micro-usb chargers, unique hand-made hacker jewelry, etc. Certainly this is something we can improve / streamline with sudo, especially as we refactor our membership process: (this is an un-official work-in-progress for a potential change to our current membership process) https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association/Future_Membership#Section… Thinking now about viable transport and storage systems. Curious about more of your thoughts on how bitcoin specifically may play into alternative transactions. Do you think a tech crash would deflate or inflate value of bitcoin overall? What of other and yet-to-be-created crypto-currencies? In terms of water, ya'll should read this: http://californiawaterblog.com/2011/05/05/water%E2%80%94who-uses-how-much/ and perhaps this too http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1087 Urban, and specifically residential / non-business use of water is EXTREMELY LOW compared to Big Agriculture's extortion$$$. Where are the state-sponsored regulations of corporate water usage?? Obviously we know who is really in control here. Foo bar... Love and solidarity, Matt

It sounds like you SHOULD teach a seminar on the subject. Or at least write something up! * -- Brandon* On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666(a)gmail.com> wrote: