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The proletarianization of tech workers (doctorow.medium.com)
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Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who started his tech career in the mid '90s, this kind of hurts to see put into words so well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I started my tech career in 2003 and back then I thought I'd work for a startup, get some options, go public, and retire at 35.

That did not happen, and while I'm making more than most I don't have fancy vacations or a brand new Tesla.