Not sure if this is the best comm for this post, but it really hit home with me, and is getting some good discussion in my circles.

    • InternetLefty [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's definitely true. I just have a hard time empathizing with bay area tech folks. I understand that they're essentially tech slaves. A lot of them are my former classmates. But they do it out of their own false petit boug consciousness, not because it's necessary for them to survive. And yeah, they're slumming it now, but it's because they think that they'll be the new money bourgeoise.

      I think the writer of this article is probably excluded from this category of people. This is just me ranting about my hatred for the petit boug tech industry and all the lolbertarian and painfully liberal landlord shitheads I have to work with.

    • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      oaklands pretty cheap, 80k will get you pretty far there. it sounds like a lot of her coworkers were just from rich families and making more money than her