who up despairing about their employability in an industry they find abhorrently revolting
despite an early all-consuming passion for the machines and their fascinating puzzle-like abstractions
and contained within them the potential for good and connection and community-building
and a compulsion to increase your symbiosis with them
there are so many of us
we are not the industry
i bet we rival whole cities in population
there has got to be a way to concentrate our collective will
The traditional answer is that that's what the free software movement is for.
Programmers to save humanity from abusive tech by giving people genuinely free software that works for users, not against users.
The problem is users have to meet us half way. And not continually jump into bed with abusive oligarchs because of the new shiny.
But I think standing firm with the original insights and values of free software is still one of the best things we can do & ever more important.
@interstar @pho4cexa this would be more compelling if the free software movement was not full of people who love to talk about how much they hate me
