Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
Tja@programming.dev 1 month agoI know how they feel because I work with them daily. They feel blessed because they earn sometimes 10 times more than their parents for work much less hard, in particular those coming from farming families. They are not earning a “living wage”, they are earning a “live almost in luxury” wage, 20 to 30 lakh a year, which is still 10 times less than silicon valley. They work in a nice office with Air Conditioning, or directly from home if they want.
That being said, software engineers EVERYWHERE are earning “a living wage” at least. We are way overpaid, in fact, compared to social workers or teachers. A company with hundreds of thousands of employees relocating some positions to other countries is just mundane.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who said violence and class warfare can’t be mundane in practice?
No y’all aren’t, the problem is rather that everybody else is way underpaid
Tja@programming.dev 1 month ago
That’s the same thing, I explicitly compared it to other people. It’s relative.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please please please open your heart and listen to me a second.
IT IS NOT THE SAME THING
That is the crux of literally this whole miserable slush of suffering we are in.
The only zero sum game here is between the ruling class getting to own everything and the rest of us getting to live a decent quality of life.
Tja@programming.dev 1 month ago
I hear you (well, read you), I just disagree.