Comment on Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 week agoIf you still get paid for a job not well done… it’s still hurts the company. Believe me, there has been an attack on tech workers by the industry. Firing people during record profits, using LLMs to upset the negotiating power of artists and software people alike, not giving inflation adjusted pay hikes, etc. You can even see the billionaire owned media grind their gears trying to come up with words to discredit workers doing their bare-minimum such as “quiet quitting”.
It shouldn’t be a conspiracy theory to claim that a few people control the reins of a lot of workers… in reality it’s a community of few thousand billionaires cooperating to oppress workers.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
A strike is a specific thing. That you do as part of a unit.
But that doesn’t make it a strike either.
Not everything that hurts the company is a strike.
A strike is a group based action in which you refuse to do your job while demanding to get some level concessions before you’ll go back to work. Quiet quiting fails the organization aspect, and the demand aspect.
That’s not the same type of organizing that needs to take place for something to be considered a strike.
When they are, then it may be considered a strike.