Conversation

Notices

1. Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2018 14:28:57 UTC Tsundoku Psychohazard

   Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2018 16:04:33 UTC Strypey

     in reply to

     @enkiv2 there's a lot of good analysis in this piece, but also a lot of assumptions which I strongly disagree with, many of which revolve around completely ignoring the agency of geeks outside their role as employees, and the influence of social movements in tech like the software freedom movement and CreativeCommons. For example, hackathons have nothing to do with priming people to create VC-funded startups. This is a bizarre assumption that nobody who has been part of a hackathon would make.

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2018 16:07:41 UTC Strypey

     in reply to

     @enkiv2 similarly, while I agree that increasing the supply of workers with coding skills could have an effect on tech wages in the future, that doesn't justify leaping to the assumption that organizations teaching people to code are simply dupes of the tech corporations and their owners. There are many ethical motivations for running code academies, such as upskilling workers for social enterprise and NGO work, or even just empowering people to understand the tech they use every day.

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.