Jolly Roger
doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-04-25-some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-9acd84d46742
Efforts to organize and establish significant influence or power to sway the practices or agendas of tech companies, executives, and shareholders or protect or advocate for either workers or users have been largely in effective, in my opinion because we haven't experienced enough shared suffering to incur risk in advocating for others, despite many of us being willing to articulate serious reservations about practices across the industry from labor to supply chain to user trust to privacy to unethical behavior and practices from executives and the companies they work for. For that shift to occur, it may have to come from users pulling their data and participation from platforms, but as a (currently former) tech worker, I believe skilled workers like myself have much more power to influence and change the industry than we will allow ourselves to entertain simply because our positions, our salaries, our workplaces and benefits are just too comfortable to risk challenging the powers that be or saying "no" to working on something we don't agree with. In 2023, the tech industry laid off 260,000 workers. In 2024 it was over 130,000, mine among them. Not to worry, plenty of suffering coming to motivate us if we're not willing to do it ourselves.
www.npr.org/2024/01/28/1227326215/nearly-25-000-tech-workers-laid-off-in...
techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/tech-layoffs-2024-list/
MUTINEERS BAND TOGETHER!
