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

• techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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