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Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
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There was a series of completely non-threatening sit-ins (like a couple hours, out of the way of any work) like five years ago, and Google immediately shat itself and started making concessions before any demands were even made. Interesting to see the difference.
By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen- believe me, I've tried. We gave up the single largest leverage white collar labor has had in living memory in order to...sit in an office? Waste hours a day on a commute? They had it all; workers demanded to be remote, until apparently they remembered they had wives and kids they hate and now we need to make up bogeymen about how sitting at home for 8 hours a day makes you fat and unhealthy and unattractive while doing just that at the office magically doesn't (shocker!). I will never get it, and I will never forgive them for just rolling over. The owning class is responding as expected- ruthlessly and with the knowledge that they can get away with anything, because they can.
Same here. I swear, working in tech as a communist will drive you insane sooner or later. All the colleagues I've worked with range from grindset hustlers, "work hard" types who gladly chug the corporate koolaid, liberals who conscientiously read mainstream media to "stay informed and not fall for propaganda" i.e. towing the US line on Ukraine, Palestine, China etc - all the way to manosphere chuds, anti-communists and ancap cryptobros and, presumably, crypto-fascists.
I've tried spreading a little class consciousness here and there, but it's hard and if you use a word that sounds just slightly socialist, the discussion is over most of the times.
The incentives to radicalize are just not there. The pay is relatively good, KPIs and decent raises and title changes give you the impression of meritocracy, the job tends to be mentally draining, and often tech workers are passionate about tech and have it as a hobby in their free time. So this usually means less paying attention to current events beyond the easily accessible mainstream news (because it's easier to stay in the same tech context in your spare time, or just chill), and more belief that the system is working and that the poors can be disregarded because it's their failure, not a systemic issue.