No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with IsraelHotmailer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 701 points – 2 months agoyoutu.be87Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment"Hmm, these people got arrested for being against genocide. Sounds like a great place for me to work!" I sure hope you're jokingYou may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US. A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness. And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.17 more...
"Hmm, these people got arrested for being against genocide. Sounds like a great place for me to work!" I sure hope you're jokingYou may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US. A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness. And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.17 more...
You may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US. A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness. And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.
These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.
"Hmm, these people got arrested for being against genocide. Sounds like a great place for me to work!"
I sure hope you're joking
You may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US.
A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness.
And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.
These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.