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Don't drive class division. Even the highest paid engineer is closer to being homeless than being any of the people deciding these layoffs. If the primary econo
by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Don't drive class division. Even the highest paid engineer is closer to being homeless than being any of the people deciding these layoffs. If the primary economic force you have is the sale of your labor, you are labor, and need to act like it.
Our "high" salaries could quickly evaporate if we're not paying attention while the owners of capital are taking advantage of excuses to wage class warfare.
- mardifoufs 4y agoEngineers are still not proles lol. And they will never be, so it's always funny to hear a bunch of highly paid SWE talk like they are class conscious workers. In reality, most are thoroughly professional managerial class, with 0 connection to anything close to labor. It's even funnier when that discourse seem to mostly happen when firings happen, as if losing your highly-paid cushy job makes you a proletaire.
- ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago"with 0 connection to anything close to labor." Except for the part where if you get fired, a countdown starts for when you become homeless and then starve? Especially in the US? "professional managerial class" are still labor, since their primary expression of economic power is through the sale of their labor. Stop trying to drive class division.