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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (pluralistic.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"I fight for the user" has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that "I don't need a union, I'm a temporarily embarrassed founder."

Oof. I don't like this sentence, because I'm in it.

[–] WhyJiffie 5 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I don't get it, what does "a temporarily embarrassed founder" mean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't get it, what does "a temporarily embarrassed founder" mean?

It's a combination of "temporarily embarrassed future billionaire" with the (mostly mythical) "garage software business founder".

Many software programmers (including me) spent the first decade of our careers sure we would produce a world-shaking program in our garage, and then found a company to scale it to the world.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It's a reference to this quote:

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (source)

Edit: apparently the original John Steinbeck quote was:

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

"i would totally be a founder right now if it weren't for [excuse xyz]"

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