Post #3085002

2026-05-26 20:46 UTC

@emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe My whole point was that the time to unionize was then, when we still had that leverage. Instead, we opted to trade our futures for temporary prosperity, and we let ourselves get duped into developing the technologies that our bosses now use to justify destroying our careers at scale. We did that to ourselves. And in terms of playing with the cards we get dealt, let me remind you that the house always wins.

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@emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-05-26 20:57

@CoralineAda@ruby.social Sure, back then we had more leverage but I don't think that unionizing when we had that leverage would have changed the situation when said leverage vanished. Automotive workers in my country were unionized since the aftermath of WW2 (previously the fascist regime outlawed unions) but that wasn't enough to save their jobs when building cars abroad became cheaper. Sure, some software developers were "less smart" (to be kind) than many others and happily built the tools that now are used against many of us but that's just the law of large numbers at work. Among millions you can always find people greedy or stupid enough to build tools that are going to be used to oppress them too.

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@punissuer@universeodon.com 2026-05-27 00:15

@CoralineAda@ruby.social @emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe pretty sure that time isn't over. While some companies are firing a part of their employees, current AI cannot replace them – let alone, all employees – yet.

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