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.

  • puppy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Actually that’s how Silicon Valley happened. Intel and a buch of other semiconductor companies were created by founders quitting the big firm and starting a competitor.

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      1 year ago

      Actually what you’ve said here doesn’t contradict what I said.