If there is hope, it is in the proles.

https://archive.ph/hMZPi

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.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    until their QOL is on par with yours

    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.