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>downright offensive at worst People are so easily offended these days. Having said that, if you work for a company and you get fired and blacklisted, you sti

>downright offensive at worst People are so easily offended these days. Having said that, if you work for a company and you get fired and blacklisted, you still don't eat. If you work for a wage, you HAVE to work for somebody or you starve. If you work for somebody, that somebody has a lot of sway over how your life looks. Better be good at kissin' ass. Also, if you don't think the US healthcare industry will take every penny of your life's earnings upon your eventual and inevitable deterioration, you're fooling yourself. FWIW, I'm a wage slave too.

Eisenstein 3y ago
> If you work for a wage, you HAVE to work for somebody or you starve. You really don't. There is no way you can starve in the USA unless you do it on purpose.
- jononor 3y ago
  5 million households in the USA constantly have poor food security. About double that had intermittently poor food security. I do not think they are doing it on purpose.
  - Eisenstein 3y ago
    And if they went to any hospital starving they would get fed. Please note the literal use of the word 'starve'.
pb7 3y ago
You’re a wage slave when you work for yourself too, probably even more so. You can’t even completely take a week or two off in most cases. Your work eats your entire life.
- Clubber 3y ago
  >You’re a wage slave when you work for yourself too, probably even more so. It certainly can be like that especially early on. Hopefully you would grow enough to hire good people to manage the business. If you work for somebody though, that will never happen.
  - pb7 3y ago
    >It certainly can be like that especially early on. All the slavery with none of the wage. >If you work for somebody though, that will never happen. The alternative to starting a business that you'll hope will be self-sustaining and still earn you a respectable living is to work for the highest bidder, invest, and become financially independent. Odds of the latter are much higher for the average software engineer than the former.
    - yunwal 3y ago
      There’s also quite a few jobs where programmers can automate away a good portion of their work
  - distant_hat 3y ago
    So the goal is to go from wageslave to wageslave owner?

Eisenstein 3y ago

> If you work for a wage, you HAVE to work for somebody or you starve. You really don't. There is no way you can starve in the USA unless you do it on purpose.

jononor 3y ago
5 million households in the USA constantly have poor food security. About double that had intermittently poor food security. I do not think they are doing it on purpose.
- Eisenstein 3y ago
  And if they went to any hospital starving they would get fed. Please note the literal use of the word 'starve'.

pb7 3y ago

You’re a wage slave when you work for yourself too, probably even more so. You can’t even completely take a week or two off in most cases. Your work eats your entire life.

Clubber 3y ago
>You’re a wage slave when you work for yourself too, probably even more so. It certainly can be like that especially early on. Hopefully you would grow enough to hire good people to manage the business. If you work for somebody though, that will never happen.
- pb7 3y ago
  >It certainly can be like that especially early on. All the slavery with none of the wage. >If you work for somebody though, that will never happen. The alternative to starting a business that you'll hope will be self-sustaining and still earn you a respectable living is to work for the highest bidder, invest, and become financially independent. Odds of the latter are much higher for the average software engineer than the former.
  - yunwal 3y ago
    There’s also quite a few jobs where programmers can automate away a good portion of their work
- distant_hat 3y ago
  So the goal is to go from wageslave to wageslave owner?