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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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[–] huginn@feddit.it 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had spent 6 years fastidiously saving to have 20k in investments when I got hired by Google.

I was laid off in the wave 9 months later.

So no: I didn't (and don't) have enough money to just start my own company.

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