I don't know whether it's wrecker shit or just malevolent selfish ignorance driving most of it, but it's alarming to me how many jobs and how many workers are being declared "not real workers" or "entitled" or "aristocratic" lately, complete with smirking contempt for when those "not real workers" lose their jobs.

Most of the workers being snarked on lately aren't anywhere near rich, either. It seems to be driven by a treatbrained "I got mine" attitude mixed with a "you used to have yours" crabs-in-a-bucket mentality, and I hate it.

Solidarity means solidarity with workers. It's playing into both capitalist and nazbol hands to get divided into little self-interested bands and snarking when someone else's job that they need to survive is in danger.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Those employees often have no difficulty getting rehired somewhere else at this point and their skill sets are in high demand and are paid highly. The line is somewhat blurry but knowing a few tech workers in my own family, if they stopped working tomorrow and refused to work for months, maybe years, they'd still have a place to live and food to eat and money left to dwindle down if they so chose.

    What I mean to say is their survival is not nearly as imperiled if they stop working or are removed from a job.

    Now, the coerced employment pressures on Twitter's mostly-immigrant-labor workers and the apparent bootlicking from those workers, well I don't know what to say about that.