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One time in college Friend A was going to drive us someplace. She started the car and said, “You ready, baby?”

Friend B in the front seat went, “…yeah?”

Friend A snapped, “I was talking to the car”

Dunno why I still think about that sometimes. Lost touch with those friends years ago.

I mean, I guess that’s technically true for some people. Unfortunately, most people aren’t in a position to fire anyone or force them to learn anything. And the people who do have that power typically don’t care or understand the problem. Whatever capitalist husk is calling the shots isn’t going to want to spend money training their HR goons to learn software development.

What is the solution?

I don’t think they can. HR seems to be full of people who are trying to hire for roles they don’t understand. Everyone who works in web development has probably encountered stuff like “Do you know java or javascript? Either is fine” from HR screening calls.

Yeah, exactly. People think capitalism means competition, but that’s not a great definition of it. It means capital gets to call the shots and keep the profits, even when they’re not doing any meaningful work.

You could have any number of companies competing that are worker owned.

Seems reasonable. There’s always more that could be done, and hopefully this isn’t where the mayor stops.

I’d rather ban future Gavin Newsom.

The responsible, corporate, way of being. Definitely should have done that. I just want people to feel uncomfortable when they have fucked up. Everyone’s just so polite. No one faces social consequences.

This is the same place where they don’t pay for holidays. My boss told me to stop saying things like “I don’t get paid, so it won’t be that good” when they say “have a good holiday”. If grand-boss, ghoul, and preeminent “We don’t pay for holidays” enforcer Anne was locked in a burning building, maybe I’d just say “happy holidays!” and walk away.

A guy I don’t really like at work does all sorts of AI induced PRs. I think he thinks it makes him look good. It probably does, to management.

I got reprimanded for asking if a guy’s extremely weird code was something he wrote himself. He went crying to my boss about how I’m mean on PRs. Fuck you, William. I hope your house catches fire and you pass out while asking Claude for help.

It’s because management doesn’t only care about those numbers and stats you cited. They also have emotional needs. Like feeling important. Like being the boot.

They also often don’t really understand how work gets done. They do a lot of meetings and schmoozing and think that’s how a web server gets build. They’re self centered, unimaginative, idiots.

We are ruled by the worst among us.

Edit: I realized I already wrote the same kind of thing in this thread the other day. I’m an old broken record!

Working for someone else’s profit, someone who you don’t even like, is not uplifting. That’s capitalism. You spend all day building some API, the owner starts making millions, and you a few thousand in salary.

You’re not accounting for the emotional needs of management. Many of them are cruel. They put value in making their workers squirm.

We should have worker owned things instead of the petty tyranny of capitalism, but here we are.

One time my music started playing from my phone in my pocket, very faintly, and I didn’t realize. I was like “do you hear led Zeppelin??” and walked around the house for a while trying to find where it was coming from.

This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace

I didn’t know they were public. Feels like being public has mostly adverse effects on like quality of art and other benefits for the consumer.