Comment on It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now
randon31415@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So you are telling me that there is now 300,000 tech workers now able to focus on open source projects to keep their foot in the coding door while they drive forklifts or serve McDonald while waiting on the AI hiring bots to read their resumes?
Thrashy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Problem being, because big tech money has so distorted the economies of the cities it’s clustered in, many of these people can’t only choose between fixing another tech job ASAP, moving away from their industry to a lower cost metro with limited job opportunities, or imminent homelessness. Driving a forklift won’t pay the rent, and commercial real estate is so absurdly priced that there may not even be a restaurant to wait tables at.