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I was a teen in the 90s, in my circles it was Understood that the data was not private. Some of this in any case sounds like the usual "did not grow up in whit

I was a teen in the 90s, in my circles it was Understood that the data was not private. Some of this in any case sounds like the usual "did not grow up in white collar society, got white collar job, got in trouble for violating white collar norms" that class-changers go through. Lots of !!fun!!. I too get troubled when the operations staff get "invisible'd" - they are members of society too and should be treated with dignity. But in a tolerably decent situation, they are recognized and respected in their field as well. Even if its the evening shift to do the janitorial work. There's nothing _immoral_ about having a party and hiring some people to clean up. It's treating them as _lower_ than you that is the failure. Anyway. There's an - as far as I know - as yet unwritten story around those of us who came from non-white collar backgrounds and found this new world confusing.

ryandrake 1y ago
As another poster[1] put it, it's important to remember that these white collar people's privilege often comes at the expense of others, and to not treat them like they are furniture in the background--they are people and deserve to be recognized and treated as people. And this is true all the way up to the top! For each of the many rungs on the socio-economic totem pole, there are many people on that rung who treat everyone on rungs below them as if they're invisible robotic servants. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201256