If there is hope, it is in the proles.

https://archive.ph/hMZPi

Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

    • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Jesus Christ, I guess the capitalists are still winning. Keep us fighting amongst ourselves so we never unite. What, exactly, would convince you to have solidarity with a person able to save 3k a year? To quit and work for less? To donate all non-living expenses to charity until their QOL is on par with yours?

      Seriously though, there is no reason why labor at all levels can’t work together to improve the system and demand better treatment across the board.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        I hope the capitalists will always be winning. Capitalism is awesome.

        Also the person you’re talking about saved that money and invested it, making them a capitalist.

        Class solidarity is nonsense.

        until their QOL is on par with yours

        I make a lot of money and live in a moderate COL area. It’s almost certain my QOL is higher than theirs.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      You know it’s not terribly difficult to save a couple hundred a month so long as you’re not making minimum wage and budget for it