Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs

• kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a reference to this quote:

  “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (source)

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t get it, what does “a temporarily embarrassed founder” mean?

  It’s a combination of “temporarily embarrassed future billionaire” with the (mostly mythical) “garage software business founder”.

  Many software programmers (including me) spent the first decade of our careers sure we would produce a world-shaking program in our garage, and then found a company to scale it to the world.

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• yamper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “i would totally be a founder right now if it weren’t for [excuse xyz]”

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