https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1346142918600437760?s=19

Also checkout this tweet on what they said about coal miners

https://twitter.com/gabrielwinant/status/1346176034429923335?s=19

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    Sure they’re paid a cushy income of $75,000-$150,000, but they usually generate several million in profit per year, usually work insane hours, and get almost no ownership.

    I started my career earning $17/hr at a boutique healthcare IT firm that billed me for $75/hr. 45-60 hrs/week was very normal at this company. I periodically traveled - at one point two hours a day to my job site, daily, for over a year. I worked all the way up to $35/hr (while they increased their billing rates to $85/hr). But they had me on projects that pushed me to 100+ hours a week. Burnt out, I went job-shopping and got an offer at an O&G firm for $43/hr + big boy bonuses. The President of the company asked me to stay, insisting that I was invaluable but saying he simply didn't have the cash flow necessary to compete with that offer. I asked for equity in the company in lieu of compensation. The conversation immediately ended, and I did not have another conversation with him before I left the firm.

    Fuck petty business tyrants. Fuck the professional IT field. Fuck the white collar label. It's all bullshit.

    They’re living cushy lives, but they’re getting fucked exceedingly hard if you look at how much of their labor value is being siphoned.

    I'm living the life of an 80s era blue-collar laborer. I'm Homer, from the Simpsons. A guy who has his eyes on a stable generally upward-mobile career and comfortable retirement, assuming nothing disastrous comes along and kicks my legs out from under me. I'm what unionization is supposed to create. And I'm watching people a generation behind me get increasingly raw deals as they try to reach where I am right now.

    This should be the fucking baseline, not the dream.

    • knipexcrunch [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I agree. GDP of the US, perfectly divided to every person (including elderly and children,) is around $120,000 a year. Programmer lifestyles (aka, not being constantly worried about bills and being able to afford moderate luxury,) should be the norm. Granted that GDP needs to go down to account for decolonialization and climate change, but most people should have an equivalent lifestyle to $80k a year. Anyone making less is getting robbed by capitalism.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        The dirty secret about GDP is money isn't real.

        Modernizing the US economy at the pace necessary to avert climate change could be a big boost to GDP. Real quality of life for the bulk of people doesn't need to go down. What would change is the methods that quality is delivered.

        The obvious changes would be how we produce energy, how we transit, how we provide health and education, and how we build infrastructure. But there's also a lot of waste we could apply time and energy to address (the sheer volume of packaging going into landfills, the volume of food waste, our loss of biodiversity). Changes to and operation of a new system will take monumental amounts of time, effort, and entrepreneurship. All that makes Big Line Go Up. All of it should entitle participants a place in society that's comfortable.

        If anything, median quality of life should continue to improve, even in the seat of empire. There's so much slack that it's still very possible.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            4 years ago

            Replacing marketers with journalists would be nice. Less people trying to up your rate of consumption. More people documenting the historical, cultural, and natural.