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Growing worry I have are the dozens of newly minted corporate elites that will continue to wreck havoc on the tech industry mandating their golden paths while A
by shimman 5mo ago
Growing worry I have are the dozens of newly minted corporate elites that will continue to wreck havoc on the tech industry mandating their golden paths while America still lacks medicare for all, college for all, and universal childcare.
If you think Sam Altman is bad for the industry, imagine what 200 of him will be like!
- philipallstar 5mo agoWe had universal childcare until we converted single-income families into dual-income families in order to make the boomers who they bought houses from rich.
- lokar 5mo agoAnd to give women full agency over their own lives
- philipallstar 5mo agoNo one has full agency over their life. The men who generally work harder, longer, and for more of their lives, that are shorter as a result, don't have fully agency. Having a boss isn't agency.
- komali2 5mo agoOk, then, to give women as much agency as men have.
- philipallstar 5mo agoHaving to work is less agency than not having to work. Being able to choose to work, and choose a nice lifestyle career while your husband has to work a hard job to afford the lifestyle is far more agency than men have.
- komali2 5mo ago> Having to work is less agency than not having to work. Both are working. One is getting money that they get to decide what to do with, the other (the wife) doesn't get paid but gets room and board but very little autonomy - for example, they were expected to deliver sexual gratification on demand, mood or no. It's honestly surprising to me how people seem to still not be aware of the amount of labor women at home do, especially in previous eras. Read any old book, you'll find wives cooking every single meal solo for every single person in the household, managing every aspect of the kids' lives, functioning as a secretary for the husband, cleaning the entire house, often doing the yardwork, managing the social calendar, all while keeping up appearances so they're an attractive wife. They worked way more hours than their husbands.
- philipallstar 5mo ago> for example, they were expected to deliver sexual gratification on demand, mood or no. This a caricature. Women were women back then.
- asadotzler 5mo agoWomen couldn't have bank accounts, in my lifetime.
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agoAh, money. What life is all about.
- 0xWTF 5mo agoWomen want their own income stream because of the innumerable ways men get into trouble. If her man gets into trouble, she wants a plan B, for her and her children. I don't think anyone was thinking about how that would prop up the housing market 30 years later.
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agoThat's a nice story, but the truth is when women first entered the workforce in meaningful numbers, it was primarily unmarried women. Society strongly expected women to leave the labor force once married, and businesses actively banned married women from working
- dofm 5mo agoI was wondering about this the other week. Is there a chart, somewhere, like a family tree, of what the Apple and Microsoft stock "ordinary millionaires" went on to do?
- thin_carapace 5mo agowe need more non tech women to marry and divorce craven tech men so that at least half of these scrooge like fortunes can get donated edit: id love to tally all the donations done by techies and compare them to how much of bezos fortune has ended up routed to charity via his ex
- HDBaseT 5mo agoIf you're a tech billionaire, you don't marry unless you are incredibly stupid. Altman and Thiel are also gay, so theres that too.
- abuani 5mo ago... Being gay does not limit altman or theil from getting married... And last I checked, plenty of tech billionaires are married and by no stretch of the imagination stupid.
- dofm 5mo agoNo idea where this comes from; I wasn't talking about a literal family tree but a figurative one (I grew up with Rock Family Trees) Also: Altman is married.
- thin_carapace 5mo agoi think i was trying to make the point that the type of person to make a shitload of money tends to be the type of person to hold onto a shitload of money
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agohttps://imgur.com/HMCnQ86 https://imgur.com/HMCnQ86