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I think it is worth really deeply understanding that the bosses hate us. Capital has only begrudgingly involved labor when forced to. It is no surprise to me th
by UncleMeat 1y ago
I think it is worth really deeply understanding that the bosses hate us. Capital has only begrudgingly involved labor when forced to. It is no surprise to me that genai hype happened after the largest increase in general labor power in recent memory (post 2020 labor market) and a decade long increase in the labor power among software engineers.
The bosses have seen pay and benefits go up and up and up. They've seen people jump between companies, taking institutional knowledge with them. They need the job market to crater so they can re-exert control in the relationship. LLMs are fucking catnip to this belief system. "You mean I do need to deal with those people that I have to hire and train and pay? I hate those guys! Awesome!"
- deadfoxygrandpa 1y agothey don't "hate" us. its just that the people who own the business and the people that work at the business have conflicting self interests.
- heavyset_go 1y agoWe'd be slaves if it were legal.
- dvfjsdhgfv 1y agoI don't get the confusion in these comments. Unless we're talking about micro companies, people who own the business don't run it, and even those who run it usually rarely have direct contact with engineers.
- dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago> bosses hate us As a person who has worked at different layers of corporate structures I find this statement mildly offending and mostly inaccurate. In terms of emotions expressed by those reported to, I've witnessed many, such as various feelings of satisfaction and control, to an air of superiority and at times even contempt. But hate was quite unusual and would more often go the other way around, together with envy.
- UncleMeat 1y agoGiven how many times the bosses have shot workers with machine guns, I dunno.