It sucks even more to be a tech worker, your job is constantly threatened by automation, but you also hate working for an evil company that does not care about you, but good luck finding a non evil company that pays 6 figures
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Wammityblam@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
This is such a bleak time for tech enthusiasts.
It really feels like every single major tech company is making either absolutely moronic or completely evil choices
You are just stuck choosing between different flavors of shit
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
myrmidex@belgae.social 21 hours ago
You are just stuck choosing between different flavors of shit
Or self-hosting your shit. Or at least find a friend who does…
Wammityblam@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
True, but getting more expensive to do so by the day because of these AI companies.
myrmidex@belgae.social 20 hours ago
Fair point, no argument here! Can’t wait for it all to implode, I’ve got a shopping list ready for when it does :)
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Their only interest is profit, it was only a matter of time for that interest to consolidate into corruption and greed. In a world where making choices that benefit all do not generate as much short term gains as making choices that benefit a select few, it is easy to see exactly why these companies operate the way they do. Their interests are not ours.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We should have regulated tech (and hard) decades ago. Were Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg not example enough for tech enthusiasts, or now that it’s too late is it the right time to shed our naive fairy tales about the Billionaire Supermen who want nothing more than to save us all?
Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 22 hours ago
I guess we need to dip in retrotech
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 hour ago
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Yeah, they’re really hurtin’. Hang on, I’m gonna set up a GoFundMe page for them real quick…