> It’s also worth considering that the people that invested in these companies, that paid for the luxurious perks at these firms, that fucking hired these peopl

> It’s also worth considering that the people that invested in these companies, that paid for the luxurious perks at these firms, that fucking hired these people in the first place are the same people that are crowing about them being treated too well. > I foolishly believed that these people were in the minority - that they were not indicative of the larger tech industry - and I was completely wrong. Humans don't change, just circumstances. Of course a whole lot of business leaders would gleefully set up company towns and have Pinkertons wage amphibious assaults (true story) on strikers and make employees work 6-day 60-hour workweeks with no overtime and all kinds of abusive, crazy shit like that, if they thought it'd make them more money and if the circumstances allowed it. We're just a few norms, laws, market conditions, and labor contracts away from exactly the same place labor was a century or so ago. We are not doing as well as we are because capitalists got nicer.