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Your snarky dismissal aside, I'm far from affluent, I'm on £45k a year in the north-west (Liverpool, HIGHLY deprived area) of the UK. I'd wager, without even me
by ionised 8y ago
Your snarky dismissal aside, I'm far from affluent, I'm on £45k a year in the north-west (Liverpool, HIGHLY deprived area) of the UK. I'd wager, without even meeting you, that you are far better off than I am.
I was raised on a UK council estate and none of my family had ever been to university before I did (and it was a former polytechnic). I'm far from making the kind of money the rest of you guys on HN do. Despite that, I can still justify the few £'s a month (£18.50 in total) I actually spend on service provided by non-shitty companies.
Try addressing what I said instead of taking this immature attitude. Or just admit that cost has nothing to do with why you stick with and defend abusive companies.
- Dayshine 8y agoNo, £35k in the south, where cost of living is a fair bit higher. £45k pre-tax is top 15% household income nationally... My point is that I can't afford to pick and choose companies I work for to avoid big tech. I work in .NET, but I have no idea how I'd find a company that doesn't use Office365 these days. It's not personal usage that funds these companies, it's enterprise usage. Working with (and hence endorsing and funding) software that abusive companies makes is the problem, not the tiny amounts individuals spend. The only way I know to avoid that is to be self-employed, or own a company yourself.