my Japanese colleague uses the word "hobbyist" as an insult, here in California, for open source coding work especially GPL code. It seems to emphasize that the person doing it is not making enough money to live, get health care, own a home and/or raise a family. "you are being taken advantage of" he said. It is sometimes spoken with a disdain bordering on contempt, it seems. He is in security (naturally?), currently working at Google, with a focus on facial recognition for security before that. He also mentioned that he disliked the Buddhist teachers in his private school in Japan, because they implied some kind of communism (his description). I think those characteristics are resonent somehow so I include it.
my Japanese colleague uses the word "hobbyist" as an insult, here in California, for open source coding work especially GPL code. It seems to emphasize that the person doing it is not making enough money to live, get health care, own a home and/or raise a family. "you are being taken advantage of" he said. It is sometimes spoken with a disdain bordering on contempt, it seems. He is in security (naturally?), currently working at Google, with a focus on facial recognition for security before that. He also mentioned that he disliked the Buddhist teachers in his private school in Japan, because they implied some kind of communism (his description). I think those characteristics are resonent somehow so I include it.
Japanese relationship with foreign ideologies has been uh science fictional?
Communism: popular with whitest collar workers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbetsu#:~:text=organization%...
Buddhism: "violent nonviolence" (creed of the Jedi, but also lay popularity of relevant koans from the Mumonkan, e.g. Case 14)
This transcript is nearly incomprehensible sadly. What was used to generate it?