Author: Olivia
On the brink of mass tech lay offs you'll start reading propaganda about how they are focusing on 'efficiency' and being lean and that was the reason of the lay offs, they had too many workers when a mythical 'efficient' worker would be able to do more work than 10 workers. But it has nothing to do about that. Big tech profits were never bigger. And they won't maintain productivity after getting rid of those many people. And that's not the plan anyway. What will happen is they'll hire new people. But the trick is that new employees will have of course a lesser salary and considerably less benefits. Importantly, they will be expected not to WFH. You won't sere them maintain productivity, and this is going to come at a massive (yet temporary) cost in productivity. But they are aiming at a bigger goal. It's a rollback in worker's…
This is really messing with me…I spent my whole life making just above minimum wage, working in service and retail and I was always drained at the end of the day. Recently I got my first “office job” and it's fully remote which I love because I get super distracted by office environments. What's really screwing with my head is that I get paid really well, a bigger salary than most of my friends and I work like maximum 3-4 hours a day. IS THIS NORMAL?! I ask not just to try to figure out if I'm alone here (I can hardly ask my coworkers “hey do you also have a ton of free time all day?!” But also because I'm afraid I stumbled onto a goldmine here and that if I ever want to change jobs I'll be back to working 8 hours in a different corporate job. TLDR;…
Let's recap on a tiny slice of what tech companies and social media websites have done to humanity just within the last decade: hoard wealth from all over the globe, rarely if ever contribute a cent back to local communities hoard wealth from our physical realm into the digital realm, even as our physical world crumbles around us everyone is a user whether you want to be or not, everyone is constantly impacted moronic business practices which require constant creation of new humans to sustain scientifically makes us more depressed, more impatient, more sleep deprived, among a host of other maladies, EVEN if you are not a user creates mass exploitation all over the world, particularly in the so-called “third-world” creates environmental degradation and pollution offshoring amplifies all forms of inequalities: the “rich” gets “richer” and the “poor” gets “poorer” creates highly suffocated higher-education system where every student is a…
