points by furk 1 day ago | 0 comments
I respect your frustrations and can relate to most. But strikes only mean something when they are organised. The best way to organise is through worker unions. If enough employees in a given company join forces, they can achieve a lot.
But here, I’m not optimistic - I’ve never seen another industry where workers have so little class consciousness. Tech workers think they’re very special and they’re so self important, it’s painful. It would be a huge job to get them together to fight for their common interests.
As a software engineer myself, I agree it's painful. So many supposedly-smart people have been so unthoughtful about their own positions and so easily deceived by propaganda (e.g. libertarianism). Now we're all in a much weaker position due to our collective lack of preparation.
And it's not like this was rocket science. You could see it coming from a mile away. Industrial offshoring that lead huge economic disruptions for manufacturing workers (made painfully obvious by Trump's election). Similar offshoring increasingly affecting the technology industry. Then generative AI popped in 2022, and you still have all kinds of software engineers parroting their bosses' talking points.