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That's not really why they pissed off the left though. What other industry treats its workers better than tech? They pissed off the left by moving in on their

That's not really why they pissed off the left though. What other industry treats its workers better than tech? They pissed off the left by moving in on their turf. Big tech is a direct threat to universities, journalism, media, and entertainment industries. It's not a threat, and even a benefit to transportation, oil/gas/mining, and agriculture, which are more republican industries.

lovich 5y ago
>What other industry treats its workers better than tech? There's a bit of a disconnect between what a FAANG company considers an employee and what the colloquial definition of employees are at a company. The large corporations have shed every worker they can that's unrelated to their core business, such as by contracting out security or cleaning. Then the large corporations say they treat their employees better and point at the ones remaining who get all the nice perks. The average person however, sees someone who goes to work every day at the same corporate campus and views them as employees who are not treated well
- fallingknife 5y ago
  Yes, but that happens in every industry, and this is about why the left hates tech in particular.
  - unionpivo 5y ago
    Because tech is very good at it.¸ There is a reason why a lot of people consider uber and other similar business tech, even though their core business is not tech.
- jeffbee 5y ago
  It's really weird that you attribute this to "FAANG" for some reason when contracting out your cooking, cleaning, and security is almost universal among modern American companies. It's especially weird when you consider that physical security at Google is actually inside, not contracted out. So FAANG may be different but in the opposite way that you meant.
ffggvv 5y ago
i think what pissed them off is trump winning in 2016. Which they then blamed on facebook and "disinformation".. (instead of hillary being the worst candidate in history) and the left decided they needed to take control of these companies so that doesnt happen again.

lovich 5y ago

>What other industry treats its workers better than tech? There's a bit of a disconnect between what a FAANG company considers an employee and what the colloquial definition of employees are at a company. The large corporations have shed every worker they can that's unrelated to their core business, such as by contracting out security or cleaning. Then the large corporations say they treat their employees better and point at the ones remaining who get all the nice perks. The average person however, sees someone who goes to work every day at the same corporate campus and views them as employees who are not treated well

fallingknife 5y ago
Yes, but that happens in every industry, and this is about why the left hates tech in particular.
- unionpivo 5y ago
  Because tech is very good at it.¸ There is a reason why a lot of people consider uber and other similar business tech, even though their core business is not tech.
jeffbee 5y ago
It's really weird that you attribute this to "FAANG" for some reason when contracting out your cooking, cleaning, and security is almost universal among modern American companies. It's especially weird when you consider that physical security at Google is actually inside, not contracted out. So FAANG may be different but in the opposite way that you meant.

ffggvv 5y ago

i think what pissed them off is trump winning in 2016. Which they then blamed on facebook and "disinformation".. (instead of hillary being the worst candidate in history) and the left decided they needed to take control of these companies so that doesnt happen again.