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I don’t think it’s a conspiracy—I don’t think corporate and political elites have made a concerted, organized effort to attack tech workers—but I do think they smell blood in the water. Hammerheads, great whites, and tiger sharks don’t all organize and plan to meet together. Instead, they all naturally smell blood and arrive at the same place, ready to feast. The American Middle Class™ has been absolutely decimated over the past 30-40 years, as the gap between the haves and the have-nots has grown larger and larger each year. Outside of highly paid careers in medicine, law, and finance, tech has been one of the last industries to offer a livable middle-to-upper-middle class wage. What we are witnessing now is an attempt to end that, and we’ve seen it before (think airline pilots in the 90s). Make no mistake: the current layoffs happening within tech are an effort by corporate elites to finally gut the last vestiges of the middle class. In 1965, CEOs at large American companies made 20 times what typical workers made. Today, the average CEO makes 400 times the worker. Some might argue that tech workers are overpaid and overcompensated, and to that I ask, “compared to whom?” I would argue the opposite: most American middle- and lower-class workers are UNDER-compensated, particularly given the rise in productivity since 1973, when wages started to stagnate. Tech workers aren’t overcompensated, everyone else is just grossly underpaid—except of course for the corporate and political elites—and it’s all by design. They want you to be poor. They want you back in the office. They want the upper hand. They want more for themselves. The end result is a weakened America, in which there is no more middle class. That is what we’re witnessing.
No, and funny as hell coming from Disney
Walt believed in a strong middle class, but modern corporate Disney long ago pivoted to catering to the Haves and the 1% (see the exponential price of a typical Disney Parks vacation). Not funny as hell, accurate as hell. I should know.
But it doesn’t bother you THAT much
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Completely agree. Scumbags- each and every one of them.
Finally a post that hits the nail on the head! There are too many ignorant, clout chasing and frankly stupid folks on this app acting like ostriches with their heads in the sand. Almost all of the economic gains of the last 40 years have gone to the top 10%. Even if you are in the top 1% - which by the way controls almost an order of magnitude more resources than the bottom 50% - you should understand how this is toxic, un-democratic, unsustainable and bad for society. I hope folks wake up to what is happening.
Individuals who make 300K are like top 5%... Not sure your argument is really applicable to tech workers!
Sadly, it’s already too late. We hit the iceberg long ago and are in the midst of a changing world order. It’s going to get increasingly bumpy as America eats itself.
Agreed. And they’re also using this “impending recession” and other “crisis’” as an excuse to price gouge. The result is record setting profits while putting further strain on wallets, which really harms those in the lowest income brackets.
middle class is disappearing
Anyone making over 150k is upper class, not middle. But yes the middle class is always hit the hardest
The American middle class has been hollowing out since the 1970s. It started with blue collar jobs moving overseas and factories shutting down in the mid west. Back then everyone was told to learn technology and become part of the knowledge economy. Fast forward to the present and now with remote work from Asia along with low code /no code / Ai bots becoming more common, the average pay for SWE/PMs etc in the tech world will continue to drop and tech will no longer guarantee entry into middle class life in the US.
Meanwhile, the oligarchy keeps getting richer and buying folks in the house/senate who will do their bidding, while continuing to sell working people down the river.
tech workers need to unionize
Hell no
Good luck convincing all the H1 / L1 / F1 to unionize. They wont do it, because at the end of the day , they will think it will adversely effect their visa situation.