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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 month ago

"I fight for the user" has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that "I don't need a union, I'm a temporarily embarrassed founder."

Oof. I don't like this sentence, because I'm in it.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I don't get it, what does "a temporarily embarrassed founder" mean?

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a reference to this quote:

โ€œJohn Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.โ€ โ€• Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (source)

Edit: apparently the original John Steinbeck quote was:

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."

[-] yamper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"i would totally be a founder right now if it weren't for [excuse xyz]"

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago

Damn bro, you ain't pitching the next disruptive idea to VC parasites?!?!

Fucking pleb

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Hey it's you, the reason I fucked off from IT 22 years ago. Things are going exactly as I imagined

[-] OutDoeHoe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I feel like the entire US engineering industry is in it. My Swedish and German colleagues all have unions. One of my coworkers tried explaining to a Swede the other day how we have the "right to work" ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ I was so embarrassed for him.

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