Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October

atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there’s a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.

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  • mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Might not seem like it in recent years, but there are still tech workers with standards and morals

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.

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      • mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yea, I know someone who did the same, and we really haven’t talked since. It sucks that people will put aside their ethics for cash, but it’s not everyone. These people are the ones who get the most headlines

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it would be much better for all of us to make new companies together

  Companies need clients. That’s sort of the secret sauce in business. If you don’t have good relationships with the management at your client firms, you can’t win the contracts that give your work recognizable monetary value.

  We can spin up an opensourcebusiness community here on Lemmy to do it together (Have no idea how to make/manage Lemmy communities and have projects already if any people would like to pick up this initiative. I can assist however I can in spare time)

  :-/

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We would need capital and we would be competing with people that practically own politicians.

  Free market capitalism!

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  • techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tbf, unless there’s some massive capital expense that I’m not thinking about, you don’t really need any capital for doing software related work besides a computer, which most people already have anyway and maybe some office space. Software is about as capital lite as an industry can be, so if making a workers co-op under capitalism is going to work in any industry, it would be software.

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    • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Salaries? Unless you just go the startup route and pay people in promises and equity.

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      • techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sure but we’re talking about people who got laid of, they’re not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I’m not saying it’d be easy, but I think it’s better than being unemployed

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• TimeChild@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Love the idea

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  • atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you have some free time? Would love to assist however I can on this if you/others pick it up

    It would get people working together to make it happen very quickly. Then the load will be shared by everyone who joins it on building it out. The initial setup & maintainence is the spark we need to get it going!!

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    • TimeChild@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can DM me. My skills are in sysadmin area mostly. Luckily still employed, but would like to explore this idea

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• mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m kinda split on this. On the one hand, I like the idea, but on the other, I don’t feel like my skills are up to snuff for this kind of project

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  • atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No worries, maybe you can do a role of promotion getting it in the eyes of people with the skills to get it done. Many ways to go about it. Another person on my comment thread is willing to do it. Couple others too

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