Re:Programming Still Sucks
by doug_durham on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:53AM
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You can absolutely capture the value of your additional productivity. Strike out on your own. Start your own company or consulting firm. That has always been the answer. Why would you think it would be any different now?
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Of course, but not as an employee
"Ah you textile workers are so whiny. If you're mad at your jobs being obsoleted by massive machine factories, why not just buy a few dozen such factories? Strike out on your own."
Yeah man I don't know if mommy and daddy are paying your rent and healthcare (as I often see from people with this attitude). Or maybe you're one of the 45 year old tech workers whose mid life crisis involves a music project no one will listen to and going to work on some startups with your FIRE nest egg until you come crawling back to a big tech company. But for now I, like most millennial Americans, am reliant on wage labor to afford a dignified life in a tolerable town.
Re:Programming Still Sucks
by stevenlangbroek on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:58AM
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> Ah you textile workers are so whiny...
hell yeah baby, I'm a proud Luddite.
Re:Programming Still Sucks
by Waterluvian on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:47AM
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True. I wasn’t born American so there is that. I have some of the lesser promoted freedoms like getting to think critically about if this is what I really want to be doing in life.