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My argument is that they have totally fucked up where I live because of their high starting wages, therefore are in a class of their own, one of which i do not see as a comrade. You cant rent anything outside of $1000 that isnt 50 miles away and in the boonies. Anyone defending tech workers are defending the very same people who PAY these ridiculous prices. You ENABLE landlords to charge and GET what they are asking. So much has been sacrificed for the failure that is the “tech industry”. People have to leave their homes, im watching my entire neighborhood be gentrified, and its 100% because of tech. Its all fine until it happens in your neighborhood. Its frightening that so many “leftists” here on Chapo are overlooking the real humanity of it
Fucking LANDLORD enabling tech workers can get fucked. Do something tangible, build a free library if you want to help distribute information. Anything tech isnt praxis. Ever.
I dont even know how to respond to this nuclearly bad fucking take. You cant blame workers for the fuckups of the ruling class. Tech workers aren’t enabling landlords, landlords are exploiting tech workers. Capitalism’s purpose is to maximize profit, so if there is more profit to be taken, they will take it. Tech workers aren’t the ones who benefit from gentrification.
Also, if anything tech isn’t praxis then you should probably not bother posting. Focus on doing your “real praxis” and cut the elitism vibe.
I’m sorry your neighbourhood’s getting gentrified. That’s an incredibly shitty thing to live through. You’re blaming the wrong people.
Tech workers aren’t “enabling landlords” by … paying rent? not asking their bosses for a paycut? any more than you are. Landlords are fucking you and tech workers over by raising prices as high as they possibly can. You getting fucked worse than tech workers doesn’t mean you’re not in the same class as them. You’re in the same class because you both work for a living instead of owning things for a living. I’m not trying to victim blame here, organising is hard, risky and often doesn’t work, but the only way not to “enable landlords” and keep prices down, would be a rent strike, which would benefit you, the people the landlords are trying to force out, and the tech workers. Not having solidarity with your fellow workers is actively harmful to your situation.
And again, you live in the fucking USA, having an attitude of “I won’t have solidarity with my fellow workers because they’re enabling the capitalists who are fucking me over by continuing to buy from them” is ridiculous. By that logic, I, and the vast majority of the workers of the world, should be ardently wishing you go eat a bullet. But I’m not, and socialists in general, don’t because that’s an utterly counterproductive attitude. If you want someone to have solidarity with you, you need to have solidarity with them, and without a united working class we’re never going to get anything done.
