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
    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.