Telling how the supporting comments on this subthread were downvoted so thoroughly. Even as tech workers are finally having the jackboot of American hypercapitalism pressed against their own throats they defend the neoliberal model. It’s really pathetic, but most are so thoroughly politically illiterate that I can’t [totally] blame them, even though they built their own bubbles in many cases.
> The jackboot of hypercapitalism pressed against their own throats…
Tech workers are the most privileged class of workers in the whole world. No one will take you seriously when you say these things. Also the metaphor doesn’t make sense. I wish we could keep this Reddit style, front page politics off our tech website.
This is a website that caters to tech workers; how exactly do you propose to keep politics involving tech workers out of a discussion site filled with tech workers talking about things in the tech worker industry? It's impossible.
>Tech workers are the most privileged class of workers in the whole world
Which is why it only takes a layoff or threat of layoff for many of them to feel like the world is ending. Not to minimize the impact that a layoff can have on someone.
HN is not just a "tech website". Never has been. You seem to not understand what hacker means.
