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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by moomoo11 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:25PM (#34727539)
Do you feel bad for the minimum wage and non w2 people whose jobs you automate away being in tech?

I’m a highly paid tech employee and idk it’s different feeling bad for someone who lost their $10/hr job vs someone making 400k tc

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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by Apocryphon on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:32PM (#34727683)
Non-engineers are being let go as well.
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by moomoo11 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:52PM (#34728142)
True but still I mean being a w2 employee at big tech is a pretty good gig.
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by nuggets_ on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:09PM (#34731499)
No, because the rising tide of automation should, at least ostensibly, lift all boats. If the extra utility created by automation is captured by technocrats, that’s a political and social problem, not a technical one. Pointing out the ways that technology can be abused isn’t an argument against technology - it’s an argument against abuse, and for governance that optimizes the wellbeing of constituents.
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