My experience of working in the industry is that many of my peers have had great animosity and little sympathy for blue collar workers who lost their livelihood to globalization.
In the English speaking capitalistic countries, it is traditional for a good portion of the working class to take on the outlook of their masters/boss/landlord a time honored tradition.
My experience is that the sympathy and animosity was purely performative.
Most tech workers will readily drop all of their ideals for a fatter paycheck. And don't even get me started on all the leftist friends i have in the tech circle that have been profiting off the rise of stock prices from palantir, tesla, spacex and many more similar companies (non-trivial example: rheinmetall).
Remember when the technologists and the media told blue collar workers to "learn to code" [to adapt to the digital economy] and then when layoffs hit media and other white collar jobs those blue collar workers turned the phrase against those people?
That has been one of the most unkind retorts used to suppress discussion around improving the lives of blue collar workers in the 2010s in relation to the US.
When you're doing 12+ hours of back breaking work, and potentially some commute, etc. doing anything else other than resting and consuming some "easy" entertainment is all that you have energy for.
> In Marxist and anarchist theories, the labor aristocracy is the segment of the working class which has better wages and working conditions compared to the broader proletariat, often enabled by their specialized skills, by membership in trade unions or guilds, and in a global context by the exploitation of colonized or underdeveloped countries. Due to their better-off condition, such workers are more likely to align with the bourgeoisie to maintain capitalism instead of advocating for broader working-class solidarity
The median tech workers in Silicon Valley have given themselves completely to lifestyle creep. If they don't receive RSU refresh in a single year, they won't be able to cover their nut.
A grain of sand from the era, when it falls on an individual, becomes a mountain. "Computer" used to be a job.
My experience of working in the industry is that many of my peers have had great animosity and little sympathy for blue collar workers who lost their livelihood to globalization.
In the English speaking capitalistic countries, it is traditional for a good portion of the working class to take on the outlook of their masters/boss/landlord a time honored tradition.
My experience is that the sympathy and animosity was purely performative.
Most tech workers will readily drop all of their ideals for a fatter paycheck. And don't even get me started on all the leftist friends i have in the tech circle that have been profiting off the rise of stock prices from palantir, tesla, spacex and many more similar companies (non-trivial example: rheinmetall).
Are you actually seriously trying to imply Silicon Valley tech workers are NOT globalised? Do you even know who who actually works in the Valley?
Yep
And they expect to be the last ones standing. If they lose their jobs to AI they will not understand why no one has any sympathy for them
Remember when the technologists and the media told blue collar workers to "learn to code" [to adapt to the digital economy] and then when layoffs hit media and other white collar jobs those blue collar workers turned the phrase against those people?
That has been one of the most unkind retorts used to suppress discussion around improving the lives of blue collar workers in the 2010s in relation to the US.
When you're doing 12+ hours of back breaking work, and potentially some commute, etc. doing anything else other than resting and consuming some "easy" entertainment is all that you have energy for.
I think they will understand, but it will be a new perspective.
> In Marxist and anarchist theories, the labor aristocracy is the segment of the working class which has better wages and working conditions compared to the broader proletariat, often enabled by their specialized skills, by membership in trade unions or guilds, and in a global context by the exploitation of colonized or underdeveloped countries. Due to their better-off condition, such workers are more likely to align with the bourgeoisie to maintain capitalism instead of advocating for broader working-class solidarity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy
Sound familiar at all?
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Well a large cohort of us are unemployed yet these companies are still making billions in revenue. Management in Silicon Valley tech is ass
The median tech workers in Silicon Valley have given themselves completely to lifestyle creep. If they don't receive RSU refresh in a single year, they won't be able to cover their nut.
This will never work.