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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I spent most of the last twenty years screaming at coders that all the coding academies and magnet schools and boot camps were a sinister conspiracy by silicon valley to proletarianize them, but did they listen to me? Did they organize? Did they union-maxx? DID THEY BUILD A SINGLE DEATH ROBOT? No> NO! THE FOOLS!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ugh, I had this argument with a coworker who insisted that we "were of another class"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

calvinball actually I'm part of a different class immune to the predations of capital

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Lol. that sounds frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"I'm built different, das capital does not apply to me"

Das capital: just-one-small-problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

he said us. he was trying to convince me medicare for all was bad because of a healthcare shortage. a necessary one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"No bro, open source is the solution. Im not some sort of free software brainwashed radical. We are going to give up copyleft protection to the software we create for the most freedom ever (expat "MIT" license) Trust me, it's not like companies with astronomically more capital than us can exploit our labor to corral people into nonfree software."

Few years later...

"proprietary software is inevitable, stop fighting against it. It's okay that microsoft scanned all our code for their machine learning algorithim, i will still use github (owned by microsoft) because Im not some gnu loving weirdo"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

lol really the same person?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Oh tech people are completely incorrigible. They have their nose shoved so far up their libertarian asses that they can’t conceive of group action and collective bargaining.