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Tech is good precisely for that reason. Tech workers have a lot more leverage than many other workers who work in more oppressive fields.
by aqme28 1y ago
Tech is good precisely for that reason. Tech workers have a lot more leverage than many other workers who work in more oppressive fields.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoBecause tech workers aren’t being laid off by the tens of thousands in recent years? Tech work is the easiest to outsource.
- hitarpetar 1y agowell which is it, do tech workers have it easy or have no power?
- godihavetoshit 1y ago[dead]
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoIf you have a job - you have it easy. It’s “easy” because I can roll out of bed at 8:45, brush my teeth, wash my face and walk over to home office, log in at 9:00 and do some combination of coding, zoom calls, etc. Get off at 5-6 and walk downstairs to the gym. But that doesn’t mean that I can demand more money [1], a 32 hour work week etc. if I had still been at AWS at the beginning of the year, I couldn’t have demanded to work from home. [1] Well I could make more money if I were willing to work in an office and/or go back to BigTech. I’m not willing to do either.
- aqme28 1y agoSounds like now is the time for them to do this then. I feel like this point undermined your previous point.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoBecause unions are going to force companies not to lay people off?
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoEveryone just forgetting the H-1B visa system was specifically created to bring down tech worker pay.