Well that and the associated failure of tech culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to understand the important of organizing in the workplace not only to improve the quality of working conditions so you can truly show up and feel supported to do good work you are proud of… but also to ensure that the industry at a basic level remains functional and ethical.
If you look at the primary motivating reasons of a lot of industries striking in the US, it often has to do with a universal anger and grief that basic aspects of their work are being undermined by carelessness, nursing is a good example of that.
Tech workers had a moment of incredible cultural and material power there, and they failed to translate that into a set of truly professional standards and become something like engineering, plumbing or land surveying, something with a license, a set of high standards that are grounded in a philosophy of doing good honest work… like how doctors have.
This invited in the subsequent dehumanization of tech workers in the last 20 years and the rise of AI further rationalizing more dehumanization and devaluing of tech work.
failure of tech culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to understand the important of organizing in the workplace not only to improve the quality of working conditions so you can truly show up and feel supported to do good work you are proud of… but also to ensure that the industry at a basic level remains functional and ethical.
which were sabotaged by Silicon Valley bourgeoisie. Silicon Valley never ceased being anti-unions, fired at-will, colluded with other firms so you wouldn’t get hired elsewhere. Organizing could never grassroot in blue Texas.
and they failed to translate that into a set of truly professional standards and become something like engineering, plumbing or land surveying, something with a license, a set of high standards that are grounded in a philosophy of doing good honest work… like how doctors have.
I am not saying it was a fair fight, but there absolutely was, however the endpoint was reached, a culture of disinterest about it that was not preordained.
Well that and the associated failure of tech culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to understand the important of organizing in the workplace not only to improve the quality of working conditions so you can truly show up and feel supported to do good work you are proud of… but also to ensure that the industry at a basic level remains functional and ethical.
If you look at the primary motivating reasons of a lot of industries striking in the US, it often has to do with a universal anger and grief that basic aspects of their work are being undermined by carelessness, nursing is a good example of that.
Tech workers had a moment of incredible cultural and material power there, and they failed to translate that into a set of truly professional standards and become something like engineering, plumbing or land surveying, something with a license, a set of high standards that are grounded in a philosophy of doing good honest work… like how doctors have.
This invited in the subsequent dehumanization of tech workers in the last 20 years and the rise of AI further rationalizing more dehumanization and devaluing of tech work.
which were sabotaged by Silicon Valley bourgeoisie. Silicon Valley never ceased being anti-unions, fired at-will, colluded with other firms so you wouldn’t get hired elsewhere. Organizing could never grassroot in blue Texas.
I am starting to feel like you’re not aware how successful the bourgeoisie have destroyed every single grassroots organization in the <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“24” height=“auto”>, but unlike other blue collared labours, they allowed their Nazi doctors’ standards to remain. Did you earnestly believe doctors in the <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“24” height=“auto”> weren’t still running Nazi experiments domestically after WWII?
Reframe your narrative, <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“24” height=“auto”> never ceased dehumanization campaigns. Esp. in tech.
I am not saying it was a fair fight, but there absolutely was, however the endpoint was reached, a culture of disinterest about it that was not preordained.
https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html
^ I agree with everything Christopher Alexander says about the computer/software industry here in 1996, that talk hasn’t aged a nanosecond
Fear of genocide ≢ disinterest to organize.
