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Sure. And that is why protesting looks so ridiculous. The oppressed working class, making six figures typing away in a well furnished office.
by constantcrying 1y ago
Sure. And that is why protesting looks so ridiculous. The oppressed working class, making six figures typing away in a well furnished office.
- masijo 1y ago> making six figures typing away in a well furnished office I don't know about you but I don't make anything even remotely close to six figures...
- constantcrying 1y agoThe average US software dev does.
- cruzcampo 1y agoWe are what is called the labor aristocracy in socialist discourse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy It is still labor and we are still exploited - most the revenue we generate goes to capitalist interests, not us, the laborers, which are the creators of all revenue. It's just that we have it comparatively good and so are less inclined to seek out systemic change - a less favorable reading would be that we are bought off to split us off from the rest of the proletariat.
- constantcrying 1y agoUhm, my revenue goes to the shareholders of my company. Among those shareholders are me, my colleagues and the state.
- trgn 1y agothe labor movement really needs to get beyond this stereotype that it is to lift all these hunched poor little downtrodden suppliants out of poverty. workers who have successfully organized are not pitiful schlubs, and their affluence is a testament to the success of their organizing, not its triviality. political interests of the labor class just are not the same as those of capital, and therefore its methods and aims should be different as well.
- parpfish 1y agoone thing that i've been repeating for years now is that if you want tech to organize, unions need to sell themselves differently. unions in the past are portrayed as remove physical dangers, limiting to reasonable hours and fair wages. but tech workers already have that stuff, so they don't see an upside. codetermination (getting workers on the board), four day work weeks, full-time remote, sabbaticals, open source support, rethinking startup equity, ... there's all sorts of things we could be pushing for that would make our jobs better that we could to push for if we worked together.
- trgn 1y agogreat list. another thing to add, credentialing so we can stop the leetcode gating at the interview stage.
- freeone3000 1y agoThe top-end of the working class shares more with the low-end of the working class, than the top-end of the working class shares with the low-end of the upper class. I have never been to a politician's dinner. I have never changed a law. If I were fired, which can be done at any time for no reason, I would have no source of income. Money is the weakest form of power, and a well-paid job is the weakest form of money.