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I’m going to tell you to go read some Marx and HN is going to downvote me into oblivion. tldr: it’s not software per se, it’s capitalism. No, not every company
by shove 3y ago
I’m going to tell you to go read some Marx and HN is going to downvote me into oblivion. tldr: it’s not software per se, it’s capitalism. No, not every company burns out its employees, but the ones willing to do so are more profitable than those that don’t creating an overall race to the bottom. All quite predictable, as indeed Marx did.
- shove 3y agoBefore anyone wades in here to say “actually, this sort of behavior doesn’t actually turn out to be very profitable”. Yes, and yet they mostly do it anyway. I’ve been in this business 25 years; ymmv (but probably not)
- brewdad 3y agoMaybe for 25 years in tech but it’s been like this for 125 years at least. Once the Industrial Revolution really got cranking, workers are supposed to get chewed up and discarded.