Something in @pluralistic’s @defcon talk has been sitting with me all day. To summarise badly:
Tech workers were looked after when it was a scarce skill. The layoffs make it clear it isn’t as scarce anymore.
As the saying goes - the future is here just not evenly distributed.
Abused amazon delivery/warehouse workers are the tech worker future.
The only defense is to unionise.
The age of being looked after is over. As a software developer I am being treated gradually more and more like a factory worker. They have us doing timesheets now, on top of all that Agile/Jira crap.
This is why I am with much trepidation, doing my own thing and hopefully I will have my own company to fall back on when this ride meets its demise.
🙀🚂🐧
@Sonic2k @singe @pluralistic @defcon, this is so true. I have to admit I didn't realize how bad capitalism is before. We used to be "bourgeois", and now we've been degraded to be equal with the lowest social classes.
@mgorny @Sonic2k @singe @pluralistic @defcon
What do you think, "Teach everyone to code.", was about? It normalized the implication that coding isn't harder than algebra; that only extends to the very simplist projects, like those you can assign to AI.
#DumbAllOver
@lwriemen @mgorny @singe @pluralistic @defcon
I was not aware of the "teach everyone to code" train. I taught myself the hard way, and suffered for my sins too. Coding well is inherently difficult. Anyone can code, but, good code, that is secure and works 24/7/365 is what separates the everyone from the professionals