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It's a population of mostly tech workers, a population of which a large segment has mostly never experienced the labor market as others do, and of which an at l
by advael 3y ago
It's a population of mostly tech workers, a population of which a large segment has mostly never experienced the labor market as others do, and of which an at least significant segment has been inundated with messaging that implies that they have more in common with the people who own tech companies than other workers. The massive layoffs that occasionally happen show some of them that this is a fiction, but survivorship bias is strong in the presence of so many smart-sounding people saying people who are harmed by a system simply failed in some personal sense (or, often, as seen in this thread, chose their outcome intentionally).
It seems deeply out of touch and unempathetic because it is, and that's the point of it