The proletarianization of tech workers
doctorow.medium.com
Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?
Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.
Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.
And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.
We deserve better than this. We can get it.
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I hope the capitalists will always be winning. Capitalism is awesome.
Also the person you're talking about saved that money and invested it, making them a capitalist.
Class solidarity is nonsense.
I make a lot of money and live in a moderate COL area. It's almost certain my QOL is higher than theirs.
Fun fact: almost no one has the money to just start a business from scratch. That's why investors exist. Banks give out business loans all the time. That's capitalism, and that's why it's awesome.
Apologies, I didn't realize that your goal was to promote capitalism and defeat class solidarity.
Can't defeat something that isn't real.