It’s hard to feel bad for people who make 300k plus tc because I know what’s it like to have money and savings after having no money prior to getting into tech. I was living with my parents til 25 for example and when I got a tech job suddenly I could afford a car and my own place. And savings.
I’m sure google pays even more, so I feel cringe there. I don’t feel solidarity with most tech workers who barely work and goof off (personal experience) while maybe 20% actually do the heavy lifting.
Workers should actually you know.. work.
Never worked at google and don’t have any intention working there but at least where I worked (unicorn from a couple years ago) I remember a team that moved so slow and then I realized they spent more time down in the game lobby than at their desk. More people realized this and they became a joke of a team who later got re-org’d.
If you have fallen for the corporate bullshit and push yourself to work hard, that is on you. We should be organising and pushing for everyone to barely work and have decent salaries, not just whoever has the top job in demand this decade ...
The world is run by privileged people. The older I’ve gotten the more I’ve realized that the best way to survive is to literally hack the system for myself because A) politicians don’t work for me even if they say they do (maybe it I had a billy) and B) I don’t have time to wait
I was born in a corrupt third world country where human rights might as well be a joke. A miracle (don’t really know what else considering my dad doesn’t have a degree) got us out of there and I got to come to the USA. It’s way better here but the problem and blessing here is capitalism means that many people need to stay “cheap” and down (but not totally destitute like in my 3rd world) in order to maintain the system so the politicians (bought by rich fucks) can keep making us feel good and fuck us right before we get the carrot.
That being said I still find it hard to sympathize with people who don’t work. We don’t live in communism where we just get paid to pretend we work. The best thing we can do is make enough money through the system that exists here and those of us who are neutral good (like me) will start companies and hire people to give them a better chance.
Don’t wait on google. Don’t wait on politicians. If you’re worth a damn you’ll hack the system and make it work for you TODAY. You know you don’t need to have a VC funded juggernaut to make a difference right?
Far from it. What is cringe however is that not all employees get these, like in normal countries, and that we create artificial division between highly paid devs and "normal people", cause newsflash - they are normal. And they are much closer to you than to their bosses. Only difference is they may have a few more months before homelessness hits, and maybe more brainwashed into thinking they're different. What we all need is solidarity.