[clearcarbon]

Work is political - saying that people should get on with work without discussing "political topics" prevents them from discussing and solving the issues within their own work.

Yes there is a need to make sure work that directly brings money into the organisation gets done but part of that work is making sure everyone everyone works equally.

"There's no way the ring is getting to Mordor if Gimli is pushing for elf reparations." This suggests we can't deal with more than one thing at once. We can deal with the big bad of our generation (I would argue climate change), while also improving the material condition of disadvantaged people across society.

[cblang]

> improving the material condition of disadvantaged people across society.

The average modern activist in software organizations is well educated, underperforming in terms of actual code contributions and a master at forming committees, work groups and assuming power.

This activist fights for keeping his/her own job while others are doing the work.

Classic leftist/pro-worker policies have been extinct since at least the 1990s.

[ali0sha]

This is a strawman, unmoored from evidence or reality.

Here's my read, based on your supporting the blog post and your two comments:

You've constructed this fantasy as a defence mechanism. You use the classification of those with earnest beliefs that you find threatening as worse at 'actual code' and obsessed with 'work groups', and on that basis you reject those beliefs without having to introspect.

As collaboration, design, and people skills become more valued as ways to produce better software alongside sheer lines-of-code output, you fear that the power you derive from skills is being diluted.

As the corporate world realises that people who aren't men or who aren't white might matter, need to be taken into account, and might have something to contribute, you fear that maybe some of what you got you didn't deserve quite as much as you thought, and the fear of being seen as privileged makes you want to cling onto your existing power all the more.

This is an opportunity for growth. You can choose whether to create resentful posts on HN, writing off anyone who cares as a leech, or you can engage with those underlying feelings and become a better human, and better at your job.

[tpoacher]

and how's your strawman different than his? Bulverists everywhere ...

[camelite]

This is extraordinarily vicious, and yet entirely par for the course, a good example of the basically pro forma denunciation OP is arguing should be verboten in the work place.

[drukenemo]

It depends on what you refer as political. Saying a certain president is crap and making an open invitation to a protest against him or her is not the same as discussing your views on things that directly affect your work performance.

[spacemanmatt]

Both are overtly political.

[scruffyherder]

How do I inject this into my SQL?

[HKH2]

In which company does everyone work equally?