Anarchism
is impossible because people will still govern themselves. And how do
you then stop them from governing themselves? Totalitarian anarchism?
We had de facto anarchism after Ronald Reagan took power and all it did
was allowed corporations to determine everything – whether you have a
job, healthcare, whether we’re primed for unnecessary wars, whether the
environment is destroyed, whether you have a right to privacy and to be
forgotten and whether background checks will dig too deep and technology
will be used the wrong way.
“Big tech backlash ‘is a turning point for America,’ says Roger Parloff”
What’s even more annoying than big tech is “wannabe” big tech. You have small businesses and businesses that are in fields that are not tech, but they have big it departments, and they’re echoing google talking points in their board meetings like eminem fans repeat his rhymes and think they sound cool. They have their heads up google’s ass. Then suddenly you’re terminated for no reason, actually the real reason is Indians and feminists.
Nothing irritates me or annoys me more than someone who has had too much luck or brown nosed a little too much, and they believe life is fair. And they hold it against you because you have had some bad luck, and shut you out of opportunities and trap you in a cycle of being excluded from the income and opportunity you should be getting based on merit. Then justify it by the fact that you’re complaining, as if you should just take it lying down.
Corporate tyrants use background issues as an excuse to push around employees who are otherwise good employees. Competing workers use background issues to get jobs when they’re less skilled and capable than the person they’re going up against.
It’s interesting, you really don’t have to even interview me, because I’m not a two faced brown nosing shape shifter. After reading this site, when I’m sure you googled my name to find it, you should have a view of what I am. Very technically skilled, an earth based problem solver who is ultra-pragmatic as opposed to a theoretical “computer science” type and extremely productive and reliable. Honest to the point of brutally honest off the job, but may hold my tongue if I feel the boss involved will fire me for using it. Anything else you hear is a lie.
It’s clear that Republicans, at first, saw the response to the virus as a conspiracy to destroy the economy and it’s becoming clearer and clearer that the response was based on the threat assessed from it.
Having said that, I don’t speak for Democrats when I say that people who have had it too good, for too long, because they’re too lucky (they’re nowhere near me in technical talent, just lucky corporate brown nosers) deserve to get a lay off and know how it feels to have bad luck. Maybe they won’t arrogantly question why they’re gaps in peoples’ resumes when they interview in the future.
I think part of the reason that IT people are treated like badly is that Indians bring a culture with them into the workforce that gives a little too much respect for authority. And so corporate execs are used to being able to push around programmers and not get a response to it. And so they indeed do fire you for stupid reasons because they think you won’t call them out on it, because they think you’ll behave like an Indian. It’s kind of like a small town school where the jocks are able to fondle the girls and no one cares. That’s how programmers are treated, and the scapegoat is Indians.
I’m a big believer that in life there are haves and have nots. My parents were haves but I’m a have not.
I truly believe that these sort of events – things that totally wreck
the economy – are the best thing that can happen to have nots, because
the haves realize they aren’t so special after all. They just got
lucky. In fact by technical skill, I should be near the top.
Baby Boomers and big
corporations both have a trait in common – and that is that they believe
in cashing in all the chips, going for broke, totally fucking over the
average working class person, instead of going for some moderate
advantage but giving the average person just enough to keep them happy.
In other words they’re both stupid and arrogant. I blame arrogance for every lost job I’ve had.
Baby boomers and corporations try to check mate in 10 moves instead of trying to go for a strategy that is going to likely win the game but won’t come off as a huge slam dunk. if they had any brains at all, they would try to keep people employed and happy.
Many corporate ceos are like monetary drug addicts. In addition, they’re told they need to maximize the profits for their shareholders. If you give them money without condition (the analogy being a food stamp – that’s conditional), they will still fire workers while they don’t need the workers. And they’ll probably play favorites with who they fire and who they keep.
My major beef with American corporations, other than the fact they lobby for wars, destroy the environment and exploit the third world, is that they are like a reality tv show rather than objective and fair. It’s like a bunch of drama queens decide who gets voted off, instead of a cold look at performance. They’ll swear to the grave that it’s not like that but that’s how it is.