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It feels kinda cringe/privileged to admit, but I only started to take leftists positions seriously after I graduated college and was struggling to find a job in the field I studied. My whole life I internalized a type of meritocratic worldview, where having credentials is enough to make a place for yourself in the world, but through job hunting in the Real World I found that you're basically selling yourself on a market, and because of these market dynamics, you have to mold yourself into the perfectly optimal commodity, with the exact perfect skillset (they call it a "stack" in tech, and there are many stack permutations possible, though some companies will also go for someone who will perfectly perform on all their coding puzzles) that matches exactly what they're looking for.

It's not enough to be someone who is knowledgeable enough to grow into a job, you have to already be The Guy to even be considered. I did eventually become a type of Guy who some companies were willing to hire, but the whole process was enough of a shock to lead me to question why it's like this at all, why a college degree and some Gumption isn't enough to get a decent job even though that's what I was led to believe my entire life, and why being a worker means constantly prostrating yourself for employers if you want to survive.

All this led me towards people like Richard Wolff, who offered explanations for why it's like this (in summary this period of my life was when I realized the interests of workers and employers are not the same, ie. I learned about class conflict), as opposed to the chuds I was hanging around who blamed it on "diversity hires" (this was a few years before DEI became the buzzword), which didn't make sense to me, because despite whatever fuckery may be happening on that end, US tech labor is still like 85% male and 70% white? or foreigners stealing jobs, which also didn't make sense to me, because "get a job doing something in demand" is the general response to anyone anywhere who's struggling to make money, so how can you fault these foreign workers for wanting to learn to code?

i shoot the best ropes, everyone is saying it

“with legos” is the boomer version of “in minecraft”

this is what Government Efficiency looks like

sparkly hexagons 😲

message for the puppygirls:

based MAGA angels: 👼😇

woke DEI angels:

know the difference.

the existence of jumble.top implies the existence of jumble.bottom

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that’s just The Doctor’s Barely Disguised Fetish

someone’s going to ask grok if you can go 69mph in a school zone and it will say yes