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Honestly if I had one wish, it would be for the tech industry to realize that they, too, are Working Class
@coriander problem with tech is that it’s working class, but also a grift. 90% of it is conning rich people into paying lots of money for magic words that do nothing. and it’s hard to get people to take seriously that yes, we should keep conning rich people out of their money, but as a unionized workforce this time
@coriander to be clear i think the remaining 10% is important and sometimes essential work, keeping the internet running for example is good, but it’s also not where the money is
the money is in convincing some billionaire that hiring a thousand people to build a website nobody wants or needs is a good idea
@coriander do games really need to simulate the exact physics of a horse’s balls? no of course not. if convincing some game director of that will mean they hire an additional person to do horse ball simulations, though, of course you want to create more jobs. and much of tech feels like this, people collectively picking somewhat difficult solutions because they present things that rich people find attractive and consequently justify hiring more people, because everybody wants more jobs and nobody wants layoffs, but then how do you make a union line out of what is essentially playing to rich people's egos so they don't realize they could fire the whole lot of you if they could just learn how to log off
