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4y

Non-dev

I'm really sad to see what's going on in the world right now, particularly America.

Millions of jobs are just, gone, automated away, or turned into shitty contract positions. This leaves us with huge unemployment, so people then are forced to participate in a race to the bottom for the shitty contract jobs.

Ridesharing now classifies its employees as contractors. Who does this help? The companies of course, cause they dont need to give anyone benefits or even minimum wage.

And then since these guys are contractors, restaurants and stuff end up eliminating their drivers since they can't compete with the lean mean ridesharing machine.

Soon most "essential" work is just going to be poor people begging for tips from their work because the companies count them as contractors and dont give them benefits or enough to live on.

Fuck this shit. I'm so glad I'm a dev and mostly shielded from this, for now. But it's upsetting to think of what the world will be like in 20 years as this continues.

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  • 1
    Unhandled capitalism. People go out there thinking that the system is a katana, when in reality it is a German zweihander with spikes. I feel no sympathy except for the workers.
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    @AleCx04 yes to be clear I mainyl feel bad for the poeple at the bottom of this who are being exploited
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    @NoDevNoMore oh I definitely dont consider dev jobs safe forever but they're safe "for now" I think.

    There's a lot of other stuff that is going to be automated before I'm out of a job...
  • 2
    Dev jobs are safe specifically because it takes longer to automate them. By the time devs will get in trouble, everyone else will have had enough and changing things will be much, much easier.
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