As someone who’s been in the industry in San Francisco since the mid-’90s, he speaks to my lived experience.
Tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years before striking out on their own to start their own business that put that big company out of business. Then that dream shrank to working for a tech giant for a few years, quitting, and doing a fake startup to get aquihired back by your own boss and the world’s most inefficient way to get a raise. And then it shrank even further to working for a tech giant for your whole life but there’d be free kombucha in the cafeteria and you get massages on Wednesdays. And now that dream is over, and all that’s left is work for a tech guy 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.
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Fantastic talk. Unfortunately, the last question was spot on - Cory’s ideas require political action.
But that political process is corrupted by the very companies we need action against.
“self regulating bodies”
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Good point. Why isn’t this on peertube?
There was a piped link posted of this earlier, but it was unwatchable because their servers couldn’t handle the load
These are pie in the sky plans. I thought he was going to come up with a technical solution.
Political action can happen, and probably needs to happen, so I am glad there are at least some still pushing for it. It’s up to the rest of us to make it a technical reality though.
let’s see what the Digital Markets Act will accomplish. it’s a slow process for sure …
You could say “encrudification” if you’re worried about typing bad words on the internet.
you know what, I didn’t even notice (just copied from video). Title edited.
People having to self censor on the internet to appease advertisers is just another part of enshittification
