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I think a lot of people are not considering something important here. What if it actually works out for Twitter? If it does, this will set the baseline for ho

by fooker 4y ago

I think a lot of people are not considering something important here. What if it actually works out for Twitter? If it does, this will set the baseline for how you can treat software developers. The special treatment (in compensation, flexibility, etc) we seem to enjoy over other white collar professions will be gone.

nebula8804 4y ago
Some have talked about this being the ultimate goal for Musk and his tech buddies. A repeat of the 80s style of acquiring a company, stripping it down and turning it around for a quick profit which reduced any power left from the employees. So far that hasn't happened with tech and tech workers have had a unique position that others have not had in a long time. This Twitter saga might be a proof of concept of how many tech companies can be stripped bare (if it succeeds at Twitter) I hate to think about it but from my point of view it seems as if I should be rooting for Twitter to catastrophically fail so that the tech elitists who are trying to make this a thing will have to go back to the drawing board for now.