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.

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    2 years ago

    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