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cannonprtoday at 12:05 PM7 repliesview on HN

While I can understand the sentiment, it should be expressed with less vulgarity, and frankly, workers should show more solidarity to one another, not because of “deserving it” or not, but simply because it’s the only way out of the pit they put us in. Otherwise we are forever dragging each other back in.


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63stacktoday at 12:13 PM

Where was that worker's solidarity from meta employees when they to built out the surveillance network?

rdevillatoday at 12:09 PM

I will not use the LLM's Corporate English.

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embedding-shapetoday at 12:17 PM

> workers should show more solidarity to one another

Agree, but at one point you're also effectively betraying people who typically want to give you solidarity, especially when you're working on systems and tooling used for suppressing said solidarity. So yeah, fuck you Meta employees for completely lacking any sort of spine.

JKCalhountoday at 12:19 PM

The vulgarity angle? It got your and my attention.

I agree with you about the solidarity though. Anyone speaking out against this shit-world we've created with the internet is welcome.

Henchman21today at 5:24 PM

A retreat into false propriety because you're offended by vulgarity is not the answer. The vulgarity is meant to provoke a response from people who aren't responding.

You must understand that the hyperscalers all optimize for compliant employees in the hiring process. You cannot have solidarity with bootlickers, they don't deserve our support because they fucked the rest of us to begin with to further their own gains. Yes, the rest of us need to claw our way out of the pit. But each of these engineers now whining about the world they created now applying to them? Kick them back in the pit.

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ubermonkeytoday at 12:18 PM

>it should be expressed with less vulgarity,

Clutch those pearls!

dogleashtoday at 3:25 PM

>Otherwise we are forever dragging each other back in.

I think turning a blind eye to our colleagues' work as if it's morally neutral is what keeps us in that pit.