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.

  • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
    263·
    1 year ago

    I had spent 6 years fastidiously saving to have 20k in investments when I got hired by Google.

    I was laid off in the wave 9 months later.

    So no: I didn’t (and don’t) have enough money to just start my own company.

    It’s workers of the world unite not workers of the world only allow people who match your purity test. If you’re not with us, you’re part of the problem.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      1 year ago

      I spent 6 years saving $20,000 in investments

      He said without a trace of irony.

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        6 years saving 20k is legitimately the “skip lattes and cancel Netflix” levels of saving.

        It’s $270 a month extra.

        Only saving $270 a month in NYC means 1 month of layoffs wipes out 6 months of saving in rent alone.

        If you don’t see the violence inherent in that system then you’re fucking blind.