https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-laid-off-twitter-workers-value-tech-jobs-work-2023-5
Discourse has recently raged over the apparent trend of "fake work," with some execs and investors claiming that tech companies overhired and gave people unnecessary jobs as a "vanity metric." Proponents of the theory say that this is why tech giants are now slashing so many jobs.
I'm not sure if I should support this because it lets workers shake the money tree at the expense of a large corporation, or opposite it because it lets the tech sector exaggerate its own economic importance (which has no doubt had negative effects on various municipal planning decisions made in the bay area over the last few decades.)
I vote to opposite it because it creates really fucked up liberal consciousness among tech workers and the money tree is totally willing to shell out for that.
it was bad. it created a labor aristocracy who didn't understand their class interests; the whole project was based on making the Internet terrible with ads/casino psychology and exploiting more precarious workers, ruining whole categories of existing jobs; and every city that used to be worth living in was devastated by the influx of money into this useless group of workers. like this is a big part of why the rent is so damn high.