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   Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 02:15:57 JST Jeremy Kahn

   "desperate to reframe the last two years as somehow a condition of a lazy, entitled workforce, rather than vulgar, borderline pornographic capitalism"

   Ed Zitron rants (accurately IMO) about what's really going on in tech layoffs. (Ce sont pour encourager les autres.)

   https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 02:15:55 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Ricardo J. Méndez

     @ricardojmendez @trochee the whole thing strikes me as indicative of the need for techies to unionize.

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     Ricardo J. Méndez (ricardojmendez@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 02:15:56 JST Ricardo J. Méndez

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @trochee @rysiek This is one of those things that I can see both ways. On the one hand, a lot of those highlighted and quoted (like Pompliano) are parasites struggling at relevance. On the other… the perks at some of these companies seem to me crazy, and I have met plenty of entitled Big Tech employees.

     The whole thing strikes me as continual oversteering. First, crazy perks and competing for how plush you can make a gig, then overcompensating in the opposite direction.

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 02:16:02 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
     • Ricardo J. Méndez

     @ricardojmendez @rysiek "those entitled workers, with their cushy perks like 'weekends' and 'medical care' and 'pensions' and 'schooling for children' — we may be ruthless coal barons, but that's definitely oversteering too far in the direction of labor" — Industrial Revolution pundits, no doubt

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