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This is your regular reminder that tech is essentially a fiefdom. Just because you aren't a serf doesn't mean you aren't a peasant.
by crowcroft 2y ago
This is your regular reminder that tech is essentially a fiefdom. Just because you aren't a serf doesn't mean you aren't a peasant.
- artistic_regard 2y ago[dead]
- dgrin91 2y agoAh yes, the peasants who are free to leave at any time, get nice salaries and a nice severance at the end, plus a ton of benefits. Oh and at FB many can still WFH. Big tech has problems, but lets not exaggerate - that undermines progress.
- crowcroft 2y agoSure, I'd rather be a peasant in big tech than a king in almost any other era. Especially in companies like Meta with dual class shareholders though, I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration to say the CEOs are essentially kings. That doesn't mean the work environment or lifestyle you get working at these places is good or bad, people just need to have a realistic expectations about the governance behind these things though.
- Apocryphon 2y agoAt least the peasants got their own offices
- mempko 2y agoThis argument was used by southern slave holders to argue their system treated people better than the north. That their workers were treated better because they were property while the north could cast people aside and replace them once they were done with them. Slavery is still slavery no matter how nice you arrange their conditions. Serfs are still serfs if they sit in bean bag chairs.
- grajaganDev 2y agoYou sure aren't a lord. But many have been tricked into thinking that they are.
- geodel 2y agoThis is reminder only for those who thought berating employer, questioning policies above their remit all while keeping employment at that pure evil employer is just how the world works.
- xigency 2y agoI think it's more likely people think their companies are /mostly evil/ and intend to improve them in some fashion.