Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?
Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.
Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.
And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.
We deserve better than this. We can get it.
I had spent 6 years fastidiously saving to have 20k in investments when I got hired by Google.
I was laid off in the wave 9 months later.
So no: I didn’t (and don’t) have enough money to just start my own company.
It’s workers of the world unite not workers of the world only allow people who match your purity test. If you’re not with us, you’re part of the problem.
He said without a trace of irony.
Oh man, guy saved 3k a year, so rich /s
I love when you guys tell on yourselves lol
Jesus Christ, I guess the capitalists are still winning. Keep us fighting amongst ourselves so we never unite. What, exactly, would convince you to have solidarity with a person able to save 3k a year? To quit and work for less? To donate all non-living expenses to charity until their QOL is on par with yours?
Seriously though, there is no reason why labor at all levels can’t work together to improve the system and demand better treatment across the board.
I hope the capitalists will always be winning. Capitalism is awesome.
Also the person you’re talking about saved that money and invested it, making them a capitalist.
Class solidarity is nonsense.
I make a lot of money and live in a moderate COL area. It’s almost certain my QOL is higher than theirs.
Fun fact: almost no one has the money to just start a business from scratch. That’s why investors exist. Banks give out business loans all the time. That’s capitalism, and that’s why it’s awesome.
Apologies, I didn’t realize that your goal was to promote capitalism and defeat class solidarity.
Can’t defeat something that isn’t real.
What are you talking about that no one has money to start a business from scratch? Start up costs are heavily dependent on the type of business. There are a lot of businesses which can be started with what people already have. The cost for an LLC varies by state, but averages out to $132. Most people can scrape together $132…. Or they can just start working and form the LLC once they get a little money.
Here are some examples of businesses with a very low start up cost…
When I was young I was told a story about a college business class where the students had to start a business, but the stipulation was they couldn’t spend any money. I don’t remember which one won, but I remember the top two (based on how much money they made). One sold their presentation time to the class of 300 to local businesses looking to advertise to students. The other, and more interesting one, went to nice restaurants on busy nights. They’d get in line early before the rush, then sell their place in line to people who had long waits.
I don’t know how you can be so pro-capitalism, while not believing people can start from basically nothing and turn it into something just by bootstrapping a small business and turning it into something they can’t support a person. It doesn’t have to be the next Apple.
I love that you googled this without knowing I’ve literally started my own business.
That doesn’t change the fact that the overwhelming majority of businesses involve both startup costs and the reality that, on average, businesses do not turn a profit for 2-3 years.
Just really stellar posting my dude. Really brings the “pull weeds for people” home.
You should really link your biography at the bottom of all your posts if you wants to call people stupid for not knowing your life story. I don’t know who you are; I don’t really care. You said something stupid so I replied as if I was talking to a stupid person who couldn’t do anything more than pull weeds for $20, and my opinion of you hasn’t changed.
Have a nice life.
You know it’s not terribly difficult to save a couple hundred a month so long as you’re not making minimum wage and budget for it
6 years saving 20k is legitimately the “skip lattes and cancel Netflix” levels of saving.
It’s $270 a month extra.
Only saving $270 a month in NYC means 1 month of layoffs wipes out 6 months of saving in rent alone.
If you don’t see the violence inherent in that system then you’re fucking blind.
That took a hella weird twist lol