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Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work (www.socialeurope.eu)
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[–] 18 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Erm, I don't know where the author's from but workplaces in North America outside of the software industry have always been authoritarian like that. Especially given that levels of unionization peaked at 1/3 of the workforce ever and are now way down in the US and Canadian private sector. The software industry experienced an exception to the tendency due to chronic labour shortage for nearly 2 decades that created expectations uncommon in other workplaces. Now it's regressing to the mean. What we're now experiencing has been the reality of most our comrades.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The author is Italian teaching in Canada. While it's true that in the USA democratic structures in the workplace are less common than elsewhere, I think the author is presenting the phenomenon in a rethorical fashion to motivate workers to fight the new forms of Authorian control in the workplace.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    Yeah, what I said in no way invalidates their thesis, which is well done. Rather I'm highlighting the problem is much bigger and entrenched than what it appears to be in our industry. Arguably change in our indistry could be more impactful for the whole working class since we can stop the whole economy now that critical parts of it run in the cloud. So if the message is targeted at us, it's probably good targeting.

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