https://archive.ph/hMZPi

Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant 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.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Wow. Americans were huge back then. Or could only afford clown cars.

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      10 months ago

      That’s a normal size for a compact car. American car sizes have inflated to ridiculous proportions.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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      10 months ago

      It is also a drawing that exaggerated how happy the people inside where. (To encourage the viewer to buy one as well.)