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.
I have honestly only met 2 people like that at most in my 10+ years of experience in software engineering
Most tech workers I've known have been fairly normal 9-5 workers, not rise-and-grind cultists, not musk huffers, not whatever. Even the ones that leaned bazinga-brained were pretty non-loyal to their jobs/companies and were ready to jump ship for a boost in compensation or worked on their side hustles on the clock
Aren't the cultists mostly the econ/business types who like tech and work in tech but don't understand it? I think the entire start-up culture in germany is based around that.
Probably, fortunately for me I'm pretty insulated from that.
But people have the misconception that technical workers are like that because software engineers tend to be highly paid. They can have brainworms on account of their material conditions (and often do, I haven't had much luck trying to find people willing to unionize) but they're rarely full bazinga brains in my experience
Your reply gives me hope that there are more tech workers that aren't completely bazinga brained than I originally thought. Where I am, the bazinga density is too damn high.
Teslas. Teslas everywhere. :so-true:
I've met a few people who are minimally-brainwormed about having teslas too, believe it or not . mostly well meaning climate libs with too much money, but at least it's just a car to them
But yeah after hitting their mid-late 20s most everyone I've known in tech gets pretty normal and even sometimes lean based.
I worked with this one guy for a few years who was a total stereotypical g*mer and overall had extremely Kyle energy, wound up being surprisingly based the more we talked, to the point where we'd yes-and each other's communist shit in meetings in front of our boss before she could catch up enough to change the topic lol. A couple other former coworkers have been anarchists, a couple more MLs, and an old FOSS greybeard I worked with was a trot. It's not the norm, but it's not unheard of either
In my experience there are fewer bazinga than you'd think, and more comrades than you'd think too. The people with the worst opinions are just the terminally online ones, and we make fun of them on the clock