Basically, what we’re saying to people today is:
You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.
What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?
Oh, then suffer.
I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?
@aral I mean, were things ever different?
@whereisk I feel the more important question is: can things be made better?
(And yes, yes they can. Whether there’s any political will for it… that‘s a whole other question entirely.)
@aral I hope so - though I can't picture it.