Digital hippies want to integrate life and work, but not in a good way

I wonder how much of this movement towards work&#x2F;life integration depends on the exuberance around startups that has existed for the past several years.<p>In other words, is a big part of what made the whole thing attractive in the first place the promise that you were going to be rich one day because of you equity? If you take that away, and people are facing the prospect of merely working their entire life for a salary, will they still want to spend their life at work?

WeWork is a strange company. They lease office space, but have somehow hyped that into a much larger valuation than other companies which lease office space.

<i>&quot;Look at La Casemate, a fablab in Grenoble in France, which was vandalised and burnt on last month. Anarchists claimed responsibility and issued a statement, decrying city managers who cared only about attracting “money-hungry startups” and geeks.&quot;</i><p>Anyone got any more details on this one? Seems a strange thing to do given the range of targets that could be available for direct action.

I consider myself a reasonably educated guy, and this article feels like a lot of gibberish and gobbledygook. I admit I read through this article three times and can’t make sense of it.<p>WeWork ia a coworking space where you can rent an office on the cheap. Meetup is basically the SIG&#x2F;user group model writ large.<p>I ask this in all sincerity: what am I missing here?

We work is a tempory office accommodation firm not a &quot;data&quot; firm FFS