Jesus, can't people have fun anymore? Does everything have to be "important for humanity"?
Do you listen to music, read books, have sex etc? I bet you do. And I also bet that you would find it pretty ridiculous if someone asked you why you do those things instead of helping humanity.
I have zero C experience and I have to say the coffi library (clojure macros that wrap Java 22's Panama FFI) is super slick. Next thing I know I'm using pointers and arenas. I'm still amazed that it all works.
To be fair the SQLite C API docs are incredible and made the whole experience much more enjoyable.
You know, there's a lot more to the working class than just manual labor. Anyone that depends on a wage to live is a worker, and we all share the same struggles.
No, things like: we obtain money by working rather than by pumping assets. We pay income tax rather than capital gains tax. Our employers are always asking for more while paying less. We do not individually have enough assets to make individual lobbying efforts EV positive, but our employers and the largest shareholders sure do. Politics is an expense for us but an investment for them -- unless we join together.
Structurally we are more similar than different, even if tech workers have had it good for the last while.
Things like unpaid overtime, health insurance being tied to employment, the ability to afford a house on what should be a reasonable income, protections from harassment/discrimination... unions have worked toward democratizing access to all of these things.
If you were writing a book about the typical history and personality of tech workers, "deeply aggrieved at the world" would have to be in there somewhere.
>No, the same struggles such as being dependent on the whims of increasingly unhinged oligarchs, while democracy is being dismantled and the planet burns in the name of the stock market.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Does not seem to apply to me though.
He literally did a pump and dump crypto scam on his first day in office. That he is a scam artist only motivated by personal wealth and power gain is obvious to any and all remaining sane individuals on this planet. Too bad the majority of American voters aren't.
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