also stop working for them and claim your damn sovereignty. Sure it comes with responsibility, and if you don’t want that it’s fine, but no complaining for you when they treat you like a number in a system.
It’s insane to me how intelligent software developers and people in general are, and how fucking stupid they can still be. STOP WORKING FOR CENTRALIZED CORPORATIONS, THEY DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU.
That 6 figure paycheck is well accounted for in their books and they’re cashing in on it in multiples.
Open-source is hard, but look at all the hard challenges corporations are forcing you to spend relentless hours solving so they can multiply their bottom line. These are the challenges engineers are built for, why do we allow our motivations to be manipulated into something that doesn’t even serve us? That’s a serious question that deserves attention. Why do employees feel so committed to their companies? It’s simple, but highly effective psychological manipulation, but at the end of the day only you have agency over your actions.
Let’s put our collective minds to work at figuring how how to get off the tit of corporations. That milk is ultra-processed generic-branded shit.
So many people will have whatever set of values, and then also a 6 or greater figure salary… from one of the main causes of the problem.
Now in most instances it would be stupid to criticize a low income wage slave for Walmart or Starbucks for being a low income wage slave. You should do the opposite, sympathize with them, help them form a union, etc.
But the tech industry?
These people are much more likely to actually have the means to exit gracefully, downsize their life a bit, and not be a hypocrite.
‘Just following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it doesn’t work for me either.
In some parts of the country, six figures isn’t even enough to support a wife and kids anymore.
Working class is working class, the key is solidarity. Unilateral sacrifices will just exhaust our most useful people. The first risk we take with our jobs needs to be organizing unions, or else we’ll just build a new capitalist economy.
also stop working for them and claim your damn sovereignty. Sure it comes with responsibility, and if you don’t want that it’s fine, but no complaining for you when they treat you like a number in a system.
It’s insane to me how intelligent software developers and people in general are, and how fucking stupid they can still be. STOP WORKING FOR CENTRALIZED CORPORATIONS, THEY DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU.
That 6 figure paycheck is well accounted for in their books and they’re cashing in on it in multiples.
Open-source is hard, but look at all the hard challenges corporations are forcing you to spend relentless hours solving so they can multiply their bottom line. These are the challenges engineers are built for, why do we allow our motivations to be manipulated into something that doesn’t even serve us? That’s a serious question that deserves attention. Why do employees feel so committed to their companies? It’s simple, but highly effective psychological manipulation, but at the end of the day only you have agency over your actions.
Let’s put our collective minds to work at figuring how how to get off the tit of corporations. That milk is ultra-processed generic-branded shit.
Yeah that’s a whole insane aspect of this to me:
So many people will have whatever set of values, and then also a 6 or greater figure salary… from one of the main causes of the problem.
Now in most instances it would be stupid to criticize a low income wage slave for Walmart or Starbucks for being a low income wage slave. You should do the opposite, sympathize with them, help them form a union, etc.
But the tech industry?
These people are much more likely to actually have the means to exit gracefully, downsize their life a bit, and not be a hypocrite.
‘Just following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it doesn’t work for me either.
In some parts of the country, six figures isn’t even enough to support a wife and kids anymore.
Working class is working class, the key is solidarity. Unilateral sacrifices will just exhaust our most useful people. The first risk we take with our jobs needs to be organizing unions, or else we’ll just build a new capitalist economy.