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.
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.