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It's also hitting just as hard the people who were humble and hard working and who learned to code because it is (or was) one of the last firmly middle class jo
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
It's also hitting just as hard the people who were humble and hard working and who learned to code because it is (or was) one of the last firmly middle class jobs you could be allowed to do without a degree or background check.
It doesn't only affect the people you don't like so I would chill on the glee, personally.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoTech-bros were by far the best paid class in the middle class. People laid off from big tech are now kicking it back in SE-Asia with the severance money they got. No tears will be shed for them. They'll easily find other employment outside of big-tech. They'll still be middle class. I'd put my energy caring more about underpaid teachers, doctors, nurses, emergency personnel, or other the lower classes of the middle class that got laid off, if I were you, instead of defending overpaid tech-bros that got a dose of reality.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoMy point is that those categories aren't as separate as you like to think. I used to teach at a code school, and every single cohort had a nurse and a public school teacher in it. It was a running joke among the staff mostly because it was a very alarming trend we couldn't avoid seeing. Those people didn't become "tech bros", to the extent they were admirable individuals before coding they remained so afterwards. A lot of people only entered the middle class because of coding work and will exit it when they can't continue. I'm one of these and I enjoy mocking tech workers as much as anyone but I trust my class solidarity is well placed in bowing out of this one.
- mrguyorama 4y agoMost nurses, EMTs, and teachers haven't been middle class for DECADES.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThey are in Europe.
- bryan_w 4y agoNurses make solid money.