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Who Got Duped? MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand
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JFC. First of all, I hate the sports analogies when it comes to corporate bullshit-speak. The only thing that is worse is saying "we are like a family". Secondly, at least in sports, even if the owners make far, far more, at least top talent is compensated to some degree.
The problem the moneyed class has is, and it really, really annoys them, is that they have to compensate top talent that actually do something, not just the executives. And man, the idea of disrupting their corporate caste system annoys them no end.
THIS is why they do all kinds of things to try to break engineers' spirit and trying to keep them from getting too uppity. They collude, and have "gentlemen agreements" to not poach talent from one another. They set salary ranges. The collude with government on programs like H1B. They collude with government to offshore jobs to the lowest cost of living/most desperate countries they can...
God fucking forbid that "top talent" get FUCKING PAID like an executive. That would start puncturing the illusion that the wizards in mahogany row are the real creators of wealth.
To bad a good bit of tech engineers see themselves as rugged individuals, who are an eventual executives and are essential to the companies they work for. So they do nothing to help other workers because the they that would be "hurting themselves".
Yeah, unfortunately, at least since the 80s, a lot of goofy narratives about how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were "just like you" (meaning the random Galt's Gulch engineer) and with a little pluck and a lot of coding, they made billions. Rinse and repeat this with lots and lots of new characters heading up new companies...
Um, neither of them made that money as engineers...they might have started out doing some related work, but they quickly turned to exploiting other engineers to make the real money.
Yep, you touched on this. Lots of super talented engineers who are also super motivated to work: Provided the pay is commensurate, which it never is.