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by Frieren 101 days ago
> you should really quit your job

Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so.

To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.
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kakacik 101 days ago
If you keep expecting the morals should be coming (only or mainly) from the top, you get trump and all related shitshow and many other beautiful things. Thats not how healthy societies work, and same can be said about companies.

Somebody making 300-500k+ yearly is hardly working class, in same way bezos or zuckenberg are not working class yet they do spend some time working on their businesses.

We all make our choices in our lives and shape it accordingly, at least have a pair and own your decisions.

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michaelt 101 days ago
Several reports say even a mid-ranked engineer at Meta can earn $200k in salary and another $100k in stock and bonus, every year. And that's not some rare, mega-senior E8 architect either.

Is there any point where a person stops being working class? Can I be chauffeur-driven to the opera in my gold-plated Lamborghini and still call myself working class?

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fhennig 101 days ago
If you work to earn a living, you're working class. If you use capital to pay your bills, you're a capitalist. So I'd say someone with that kind of salary and stocks is probably halfway to not-working-class. If you already have 1MM in stocks then you're not working class anymore, you don't need to work at that point.
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Frieren 101 days ago
> If you work to earn a living, you're working class

They are using a divide an conquer strategy. By splitting the working class they want to weak our ability to resist capital.

There is no logic to their argument just lies to fulfill their goal.

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keybored 101 days ago
> So I'd say someone with that kind of salary and stocks is probably halfway to not-working-class. I

Just halfway seems low. But this is Silicon Valley News after all.

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ramon156 101 days ago
Stop using bills as an excuse to be on the wrong side of history. Were the nazi soldiers innocent for gassing jews? Or were they also just "following the law"?

Being ethical is hard, but it's not an excuse. Yes, I judge people that work for FAANG, I judge colleagues for extensively rely on LLMs, and Big Corps for that matter.

> Regulate capital

How? Oh, right, by not using these products or working for the mentioned companies.

It's so easy to shift blame on other's and mark it as "not my problem lol"

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Frieren 101 days ago
> It's so easy to shift blame on other's and mark it as "not my problem lol"

I don't say that it is "not my problem". It is. That is why Facebook is guilty and high level decision makers should be held accountable by the law.

We need to make it happen. Until CEOs and the like are in prison we are failing society.

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