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Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare by Lammy on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:52AM (#22066283)
You can see the mindset everywhere in the Valley; it's just easiest with the "gig economy" companies that put it right in our collective faces.

For example, compare what was described in the linked article to how brutally companies like Facebook and Google resist treating their campus staff like "real employees": https://gizmodo.com/google-and-facebooks-security-guards-are...

Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare by spaced-out on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:57AM (#22066353)
Why do you only name Google and Facebook when this is common practice all over corporate America?

At least they pay their workers as opposed to the entertainment and fashion industries which are notorious for abusing unpaid "interns".

Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare by Lammy on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:46PM (#22066907)
I can only have fair opinions of environments I’ve personally experienced, and this thread is about SV companies.
Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare by neo4sure on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:39PM (#22068639)
The only issue I have with this is the people that are wrecking the planet are not getting criticized at all IE BIG OIL. Somehow I think they are the winners in all of this.
Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare by Lammy on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:33PM (#22071344)
This quote stood out to me when re-reading this article—emphasis mine:

“You can offer to work for 16 hours a day,” said Annabelle, a security officer who asked to be identified only by her middle name because she feared retaliation from her employer. “And they always have places where they need officers, so if you can stay awake and you can work the hours, you can earn some overtime, and that will help pay for a desperately needed car repair, or it will put food on the table—whatever the latest catastrophe is.”

And makes me wonder if there is any correlation between the need to work more hours at unsteady jobs and the rise in methamphetamine use in the last decade:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/meth...

"NIDA’s National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), which tracks drug trends in sentinel sites across the country, found that treatment admissions for methamphetamine as the primary substance of use were less than one percent in sites east of the Mississippi River, but ranged from 12-29 percent in the sites west of the Mississippi. Nationwide, overdose deaths from the category of drugs that includes methamphetamine increased by 7.5 times between 2007 and 2017."

https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/met...