Comment by pm90
I don’t understand what your point is. To express gratitude? That tech workers have privilege? How far are you willing to go down that path? Should we be grateful that we have running water, 24 hour electricity and don’t suffer from constant hunger, because a depressingly large percentage of the worlds population does?
The world has many problems and we have to deal with them and with our own. The people that are in this forum are incredibly privileged. I don’t think it helps any kind of argument to keep bringing it up though.
> Should we be grateful that we have running water, 24 hour electricity and don’t suffer from constant hunger, because a depressingly large percentage of the worlds population does?
Actually yes, I do think we all should be very grateful for that and other conveniences we get to have because of all the hard working men and women that make it possible. To take them for granted is being spoiled IMHO. You think the people that fix our water pipes, service our electrical grid, or grow our food would agree that tech workers that can't work in their pajamas from home live under any kind of tyranny? There are Russian missiles destroying those very things 1000 km from here everyday, and you want to defend calling back to office policies tyranny? Please get some perspective, everyone have problems but there are different degrees of them.
> That tech workers have privilege?
Yes we do, and a lot of it. Does that mean we should keep quiet when we're treated poorly? No, of course not. Everyone has had a boss they didn't get along with, or company policies they didn't agree with. Use words like tyranny if it makes you feel better, but don't expect everyone else to agree with such hyperbole. You don't even have to look for suffering outside of the US either, there's plenty of Amazon warehouse workers or delivery drivers that would love to switch places with AWS employees for half their pay, even if they would need to commute.