If designers and other tech workers want to have any chance at fixing the mess we’ve created, we need to reassess who we consider our community. The homeless people whose existence we condemn in our Medium thinkpieces because they dare to exist close to the homes we pay too much rent for? They are our community. It would serve us all well to understand how we are failing them. The multitudes that get harassed and abused online by the very tools we build? They are our community. They deserve our allegiance. The corner bodega that’s barely getting by because all their customers have been
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