Comment by krapp
>We didn't really care when it was factory workers, or payroll clerks, or switchboard operators. But now that it's going after programmers, now we care.
Watching tech people slowly realize they aren't an elite class of philosopher kings but just labor has been amusing. Wish they could have come around to class consciousness before they ruined the world but I suppose better late than never.
It’s not wanting to be treated like some noble elite, just being treated like labor is fine. The problem now is instead of being asked to dig a ditch it a reasonable about of time, the company is making you dig that same ditch with no break, no lunch, for as long as you can. Then once you give out, they hand the next person on the street a shovel and they begin because if we get the ditch dug 3x as fast we can make more money