| > Sure. Now. > > It's an Overton Window. Business executives and their big investors are the feudal overlords who are decreasingly benevolent liege lords. > > What is abhorrent now slowly becomes normalized. Look at CEOs who said, shortly after some of the more brutal start opining about how everyone needs to RTO or GTFO At least one of those CEOs said they needed a bit more Elon in them. They meant his ruthlessness with his employees. > > And the window moves. Exactly. I was browsing LinkedIn this week when I stumbled in this gem: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samfjacobs_last-month-i-was-a... So what he's saying is that he got together with 130+ other CEOs, who combined will probably make millions if not billions, bitching that the people who do the actual grunt work (and make a couple of thousand a month) aren't putting in extra hours or looking at their work mail on weekends. This is so far from reality it's staggering. I work with, and among young developers every day. I'm in my forties and I've done so for most of ny career. Beyond a healthy work life balance they are just sick of working without a fair share of the benefits. These people aren't less prone to work hard, they just don't want to work hard to make extremely wealthy people more wealthy. Some are working less for their employer, and in the meantime are working for themselves to create new disruptive startups. The article says CEOs are "worried", but it also states that these workers should fear for their jobs because they are going to be made obsolete by AI. The reality is that small companies can get much more work done in less time than big ones, I have worked for both.
The bigger a company gets, the slower it becomes. |