alt Hacker NewsIt’s really heartening to see that “eat the rich” is finally becoming a consistent message on HN
Technology truly can be used by the dispossessed in order to reclaim power from the billionaire psychopath class
But it requires those of us who know how to wield technology to stop looking to rich people to fund us, and start organizing from the ground up in order to take them down
Step one is that all of us blue collar technologists need to get organized
I’ve tried it and failed, but maybe now is the time
Replies
I don't think technologists are blue collar. They are not necessarily part of the owner class but true blue collar work is not done behind desks.
What does "eat the rich" actually mean besides a broad distaste of people who have more?
> Step one is that all of us blue collar technologists need to get organized
So that Apple and Google can discriminate against us as a bloc, instead of individually?
As a programmer I struggle to see how organization would achieve anything. We hold no cards, it's the platform holders who won.
Americans are weird creatures in this regard. Give them 5% of their compensation / 0.0001% of a company in stock/options and suddenly they think they have become Big Capital.
If you need to work to collect a wage to pay your expenses, you are still labor, sorry if that hurts peoples feelings, but it shouldn't.