HOLY FUCKING SHIT that last paragraph in the first post
Imagine being so fucking brainwashed by the "meritocracy" propaganda that you actually believe that your comfortable, virtually-zero-safety-risk job pressing buttons on a keyboard actually "produces value" such that it upholds the lifestyles of everyone else.
These people cannot be "re-educated" simply because they were never educated in the first place. That terminology would be incorrectly applied to them.
And if enough farmers decide they want to just collect their check, either someone is going to need to be forced or we all starve.
As opposed to now, when all the farmers are doing it purely out of a happy, wilful choice.
Goddamn these people are ignorant. No wonder every piece of modern software sucks ass.
This is a deeply held belief among tech workers, the PMC, and capital owners: that THEY are the ones creating most value in society. And because of that, they believe they are subsidizing the lifestyles of hordes of low-productivity workers, who would be totally destitute if not for them.
I think the source of that belief is literally just "I make a lot of money, that must mean that I'm creating lots of value". So when they see a worker working a grueling minimum wage job, they just naively think "wow, that person must be very unproductive".
This is so crazy to me as tech worker. I feel like what I do is meaningless and it’s insane that I get paid so much for it. I have a friend who’s a social worker and they qualify for Medicaid. Their job is so much harder than mine and they actually impact someone’s life.
I can’t imagine one way how anything I’ve worked on made a positive impact.
The most charitable interpretation would be to say that the guidance offered by a skilled and wise general enhances the effectiveness of the soldiers they are leading. As compared to nonsense like "Napoleon's presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men", which frames them as superheroes instead of managers.
That’s what really gets me. Like, yeah you’re so smart, got all A’s in school, went to college and did everything right. On paper you’re a genius! But what are you using it for? Changing some numbers on a spreadsheet that no one will ever see? Finding ways to make the company you work for slightly more profitable?
Congratulations.
We have a nation full of college educated geniuses but we somehow can’t figure out something like universal healthcare. It’s bullshit.
I'm in this picture, and it helped radicalize me. The smartest minds of my generation are sitting in San Francisco trying to figure out how to beam ads directly into your brain while you sleep all the while the world burns around them due to a thousand solvable issues that no one is working on.
The work I do every day is meaningless. My company accomplishes nothing of value or note. My skills, whatever real value they might potentially have, are wasted. It's a terminal case of burnout, because I cannot make myself give a shit about what I do for a living other than putting in enough effort to continue to earn a paycheck, and yet I'm far better off than the people who actually make society function. I don't know how effective of rhetoric this would be for your average PMC tech worker, but it seems like the only real line of agitprop against people who enjoy the comfort and security that kind of role gets you.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT that last paragraph in the first post
Imagine being so fucking brainwashed by the "meritocracy" propaganda that you actually believe that your comfortable, virtually-zero-safety-risk job pressing buttons on a keyboard actually "produces value" such that it upholds the lifestyles of everyone else.
These people cannot be "re-educated" simply because they were never educated in the first place. That terminology would be incorrectly applied to them.
As opposed to now, when all the farmers are doing it purely out of a happy, wilful choice.
Goddamn these people are ignorant. No wonder every piece of modern software sucks ass.
This is a deeply held belief among tech workers, the PMC, and capital owners: that THEY are the ones creating most value in society. And because of that, they believe they are subsidizing the lifestyles of hordes of low-productivity workers, who would be totally destitute if not for them.
I think the source of that belief is literally just "I make a lot of money, that must mean that I'm creating lots of value". So when they see a worker working a grueling minimum wage job, they just naively think "wow, that person must be very unproductive".
This is so crazy to me as tech worker. I feel like what I do is meaningless and it’s insane that I get paid so much for it. I have a friend who’s a social worker and they qualify for Medicaid. Their job is so much harder than mine and they actually impact someone’s life.
I can’t imagine one way how anything I’ve worked on made a positive impact.
Shit rolls down hill folks
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People who internalized the idea of wealth makes someone valuable.
It's the same delusion that generals win battles and not the soldiers.
The most charitable interpretation would be to say that the guidance offered by a skilled and wise general enhances the effectiveness of the soldiers they are leading. As compared to nonsense like "Napoleon's presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men", which frames them as superheroes instead of managers.
Managers should work for the workers.
That’s what really gets me. Like, yeah you’re so smart, got all A’s in school, went to college and did everything right. On paper you’re a genius! But what are you using it for? Changing some numbers on a spreadsheet that no one will ever see? Finding ways to make the company you work for slightly more profitable?
Congratulations.
We have a nation full of college educated geniuses but we somehow can’t figure out something like universal healthcare. It’s bullshit.
I'm in this picture, and it helped radicalize me. The smartest minds of my generation are sitting in San Francisco trying to figure out how to beam ads directly into your brain while you sleep all the while the world burns around them due to a thousand solvable issues that no one is working on.
The work I do every day is meaningless. My company accomplishes nothing of value or note. My skills, whatever real value they might potentially have, are wasted. It's a terminal case of burnout, because I cannot make myself give a shit about what I do for a living other than putting in enough effort to continue to earn a paycheck, and yet I'm far better off than the people who actually make society function. I don't know how effective of rhetoric this would be for your average PMC tech worker, but it seems like the only real line of agitprop against people who enjoy the comfort and security that kind of role gets you.