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Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom (arstechnica.com)
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[–] cimbazarov@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It would be cool to see more tech worker solidarity, but I feel tech workers in particular have the most animosity towards each other, at least in big tech. Of course this is the result of how these companies are structured, but it's hard to get that across to them.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s not a matter of animosity towards each other. It’s a lack of class consciousness and a sense of being temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Quoting myself:

  • https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3694570/3673745

    Burgerland STEM is very technocratic, engineer’s disease turbolib. CS graduates are supposed to join the labor aristocracy with the possibility of joining the bourgeoisie through the tech startup pipeline.

  • https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6029806/5348133

    Yup. It’s haute labor aristocracy. Or was, maybe it’s down a peg nowadays. And usually all STEM, no humanities. No class consciousness. Petit bourgeois stock options aspirations.

    By all rights I should be an insufferable turbolib.

    The treats are eroding nowadays, though, so they’re likely to get angrier. Maybe a few will develop class consciousness.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

"engineers disease": The delusion because you're ubercompetent in your chosen field, you're automatically an expert on everything else.

I think that's only part of the problem. Experts in other fields normally do not impose their will upon all domains of knowledge like tech people do. At least not to such an extent. I think them being paid better wages and benefits than other workers with the same depth of expertise is what makes them like this. Financial success is conflated with objective superiority.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

in online communities? maybe. In the real world, among people who touch grass, less so.