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The proletarianization of tech workers (doctorow.medium.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by erlend_sh@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be honest I am relieved to not have your approval on this. You all guys are so completely out of your mind, that agreeing with you would mean something is really wrong with me.

I'll ask my google friends, now that they have suddenly become proletariat, to stop by their proletarian loft by the lake with no offspring whatsoever to arrange seizing the means of production. We'll arrange it between their trip in costa Rica and their Kenyan safari. We wait for their tesla to fully recharge though.

They should first reinvest all their google stocks, as market do not value proletarian revolution, and the stock price might get an hit.

I heard fake communists were a bit crazy around here. But this whole thread is another level crazy

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're being told by basically everyone in this thread that your ideas are incorrect. Either take this as an opportunity to reflect on this and perhaps come to a different conclusion or take the L and move on. Go touch some grass.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow a bunch of random weirdos downvoted me on lemmy. What a prove you are right. Marx was never downvoted on lemmy. Only logical conclusion is that you are the new Marx. Marx, the paladin of the mainstream opinions on political science platform lemmy

Grow up please. Learn how to discuss as an adult. You agree with the guy sharing hentai furry porn on 4chan. Downvotes on social media mean nothing, they are not a prove of anything. Otherwise novax would be right based on Facebook likes

And I thought reddit was full of naive people