alt Hacker News> Software engineers are laborers. If you're a capital owner, a laborer is something that weights down your returns.
> It's not rocket science.
It's far above the heads of many supposedly "smart" software engineers, who looked at their high salaries and 401ks, forgot they were disposable laborers, and confused themselves for capitalist tycoons.
Drop the libertarianism and form a labor union before it's too late. You're not smart if you're parroting your boss's talking points like an idiot.
> forgot they were disposable laborers, and confused themselves for capitalists.
I agree with this, but it isn't just limited to software engineers. Most of the supposed "middle class" in the US fits this description.
We currently have the highest level of wealth inequality in history which is still growing at runaway rates and plenty of laborers who view themselves as "temporarily embarrassed billionaires" willing to prop up the system, seemingly unaware that those at the top will gladly wipe them off their boot when given the chance.