Every day we come closer to realizing the Parable of the Sower
“The project creates the future of San Jose that I want to live in,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said at a Tuesday City Council meeting, especially after overcoming “tremendous mistrust of government and suspicion of big tech.”
I wonder what convinced him to overcome his mistrust and suspicion.
You code sixteen apps and what do you get?
they’re accidentally creating the perfect conditions for tech union organizing
Tech workers don’t view themselves as workers. They kind of aren’t, they’re more like petit-boug. Seriously, you need to get more familiar with how much money these people have and how they use it if you think they’re just good old working class people (“financial independence” and “passive income” are two of their favorite topics, and they can actually achieve them, HINT HINT!)
The people in tech to organize are the people doing the grunt work like human moderation, the cleaning and maintenance staff, etc. The techbros are not reachable. The best case scenario is that you get shit that’s purely performative. Great Article
you need to get more familiar with how much money these people have
Not just how much money but how easy they have it. You don’t stay unemployed when you’re in tech, for example - you put up a CV online and recruiters call you pretty much the same day.
They call you pretty much every day while you’re employed!
Anybody who has sympathy for people who, as a class:
make well into the six figures starting at age 22, have excellent benefits and extremely lax work policies around vacation time and hours, and have an incredibly high amount of direction over the work they do
is wasting time or being duped.
This is going to be dogshit and ruin an already pretty feeble downtown and displace probably hundreds of homeless people
