I think that chaos provides opportunities for opportunists, and there are those who know this and seek to create order, and there are those who know this and seek to create chaos, for exactly the reasons you might suspect. His machine empire perspective was that we don't want to be happy. Agent Elrond talked about this in The Matrix. If there's hope, it's in the proles.Īs to whether it's been tried, I would say that the Socialism I'm referring to was implemented quite successfully in the United States in the 30s, and its benefits persisted into approximately the 70s, at which point the cohort which remembered why The New Deal happened had aged out and their children started dismantling all the apparatus in a fever dream of capitalist ideology, which they've been promising would produce a utopia, but which if you look out of any window in the USA, you will has done quite a good job of producing that same anti-utopia you referred to.Īs I said, humans gonna human. And join the rest of the historically frustrated who will die watching humanity flagellate itself. If you want a just world, be a Socialist. Look how much better we are treated than him.įagedaboudit. In the end, the workers of tech are just well-kept poodles who will heel to their masters and be loyal to the point of abject moral failure, just like the house slave. Like the midway lackey whose job is to walk around carrying a giant teddy bear that nobody will ever actually win, they are even given high-profile examples, lottery winners, pop stars from common backgrounds, tech "mafia" who live as monied dilletantes on megayachts, tipping their hats to Saudi princes and Russian gangsters. Even among the lowest working class, they have been fed on tidbits of heady turkish delight which says that if they do everything right, they can be one of the oppressor class. The axe's handle being recognizably wooden. But then, Jim Crow wasn't slavery either, right? Oppression comes in many flavours, some of them stronger, some of them weaker, but it has the same features, always, including the divide and conquer strategy. Now if you take three groups at Amazon - warehouse workers, tech workers, and C-level executives, they all kinda slot into those roles very well, don't they? Again, not that we're slaves. Here is a real X speech that is very similar to what is in the movie, though the movie script distills it better for modern ears: If you ever saw Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" biopic (or know about Malcolm X through other channels), there is a scene where he talks about the existence, during US Slavery, of "field" and "house" slaves, who tended to live in those same places they worked. I'm gonna be un-PC and reach for a metaphor involving slavery - not because I am comparing tech workers, of which I am one, to slaves, but because I think it's the best real-world example of how oppression is distributed by hubristic figureheads of feudalistic systems. I am incredibly in favour of unions in all industries, but this one I have serious doubts it will ever happen. Nothing personal in the end, just observing their moves. Long story short, I also determined that they really only wanted me if I disliked my current job enough to leave without an upgrade, as others had done in my shoes. So clearly wanting remote was a negative bargaining chip even though my current job is/was remote. It wasn't worth switching for the same thing. The last (and best) offer I got before they stopped calling was roughly my existing comp and level at the time, while being remote like my existing job. They revised upwards each time I declined or outright said goodbye. Eventually I did get a revised offer for a remote team, but it was less than my current comp. A few times they asked me to consider relocating, I declined. Even the ones that said they had team members all over the world. Then one by one, they called back to say that team was either no longer hiring remotely or outright frozen. They said they had plenty of remote-friendly teams and started setting up manager interviews. The negotiations afterwards gave me the idea that eventual RTO was their goal. Near the end of 2022, I got an offer at Amazon for a remote SWE role.
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