link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112
this thread is filled with insane shit
all about things technology has done to actively make life worse for us all
And yet it is controversial to say that this person has a parasitic relationship with the Global South.
Nooooooo they’re a WORKER, that means they’re inherently good!
And yet it is controversial to say that this person has a parasitic relationship with the Global South.
I don’t know that anyone has ever argued that logistics software engineers, or DOD Contractors are not pimples on the ass of humanity.
It’s when you extrapolate that proposition out to literally anyone & everyone who ever breathed the air of a country in the Imperial Core that you start sounding like a “Pol Pot Guy”.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the mass of American workers are not poor, misled souls controlled by the evil government, but largely rational actors who correctly see that they gain more from the American project than they are exploited by it, on an almost 1:1 basis that scales with how much money they make.
Just like the poor white settlers who undertook the project of Manifest Destiny, they correctly see where their interests lie.
