Maybe 15 years ago that was true. Now, fuck them, they know what they are working for. If they want redemption they can quit and join open source communities.
How much do those pay? Enough for rent and groceries? Send your kids to college maybe?
Choice is a luxury not everyone can afford, and the job market is fucked up in some places, particularly with things like dependency on your employer for healthcare and stability concerns. Yes, the cage may be gilded, but I doubt that it’s empty.
Attack the system that binds them. Build a socisl safety net that they can trust to catch them and see to their necessities*. Make it a purely binary choice between excess and morality. Whoever continues to sell their soul can burn with the rest of the company.
*The catch with many unemployment benefit systems is that they only fully apply if you are fired without fault, not if you quit, unless you can prove specific circumstances such as health issues or workplace toxicity, which can be quite a hurdle. Whatever safety we offer has to lower the barrier for those circumstances and permit ethical concerns as justified reason to leave.
These jobs are some of the most high paying in the country, these people aren’t starving, they are upper middle class/swells to start with overwhelmingly, not broke, and millionaires.
Those are well known statistics. Microsoft for instance created more millionaires from workers than any company ever. Their employees, the software engineers and the like, are in high demand and make a lot a lot of money.
Maybe 15 years ago that was true. Now, fuck them, they know what they are working for. If they want redemption they can quit and join open source communities.
How much do those pay? Enough for rent and groceries? Send your kids to college maybe?
Choice is a luxury not everyone can afford, and the job market is fucked up in some places, particularly with things like dependency on your employer for healthcare and stability concerns. Yes, the cage may be gilded, but I doubt that it’s empty.
Attack the system that binds them. Build a socisl safety net that they can trust to catch them and see to their necessities*. Make it a purely binary choice between excess and morality. Whoever continues to sell their soul can burn with the rest of the company.
*The catch with many unemployment benefit systems is that they only fully apply if you are fired without fault, not if you quit, unless you can prove specific circumstances such as health issues or workplace toxicity, which can be quite a hurdle. Whatever safety we offer has to lower the barrier for those circumstances and permit ethical concerns as justified reason to leave.
Yes that’ll feed the kids!
These jobs are some of the most high paying in the country, these people aren’t starving, they are upper middle class/swells to start with overwhelmingly, not broke, and millionaires.
Goodness that’s a lot of conclusions about other people, all at once.
Those are well known statistics. Microsoft for instance created more millionaires from workers than any company ever. Their employees, the software engineers and the like, are in high demand and make a lot a lot of money.