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The people who wrote that page are mostly from the organization discussed in the article. Struggling doesn't mean they never achieved anything. Also maybe go beyond the title.

In Italy they are probably above 90% of the workforce. They are the defining form of IT sector. In the USA way less, and also individual contractors are legal, while in Italy they are not, so there's a whole issue of illicit dynamics ("body rental") which in the USA are equally a problem, but they are not illicit and nobody cares about them.

Shitty, exploitative consultancies exist wherever there's an IT sector, but in certain countries, like Italy, Brazil, or Romania, they are the only form and this shapes the union landscape a lot. Romenia proves that this is not a blocker to achieve high union density though.

specifically it’s encoded in the patterns of neuron firings. Look, if you could prove this, you would solve a lot of problems in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case, or at least there's not enough information going on in our brain to inequivocably state what you're stating.

The fact that our consciousness can be mapped onto physical states doesn't mean it can be reduced to it. You can map the movement of the sun with a sundial and the shadow it generates, but there's no giant ball of ongoing nuclear fusion in any shadow, even though one requires the other.

you answered to the wrong person.

In fact I was talking about "foot worshipping" and not foot fetish in general, which are arguably very different dynamics.

Every kink is a kink because the object of the kink holds some specific value or logic within the social context that is then relived or subverted within the kinky dynamic. If foot worshipping wasn't, historically and symbolically, an act of submission in society, it wouldn't be a kink at all.

It's just to understand if you do politics or you just talk about politics.

Criticizing without strategic and contextual awareness of what you're criticizing should stop being normalized. If you just have opinions on stuff instead of building or participating into organizations, I know for sure I can disregard your words.

I'm far from being a doomer. I just don't believe technology will save us. There are better ways.

The pro-union sentiment on HackerNews definitely grew in the last 5 years. Also those are tech-enthusiast tech bros, which are a small fraction of the workforce of any tech company or even of technical tech workers overall. Most people I know avoid hackernews because it's a cesspool, regardless of their political stance.

How are you contributing to that?

I think it's time for you to be introduced to the concept of "cognitive work". We have been doing that for a few thousand years now.

open source startups are still part of the same ecosystem that fuels big tech. Big tech, being more powerful, can capture commons very easily and that's true for the vast majority of open-source code. The very concept of open-source was conceived by a person with the same ideological and cultural background of the tech oligarchs now in power.