Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”

[seed@mastodon.au]

@fasterandworse @fasterandworse the tobacco comparison lands harder than people want to admit. tobacco knew and kept selling. tech knows and keeps shipping. the difference is tobacco took decades to get called out — we're watching it happen in real time and still can't stop it.

[helge@mas.to]

@fasterandworse The tech industry has to suffer me and pay for the privilege.

[mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@fasterandworse even theoretical computer science is financed by the war ministry of usa nowadays

[bryanlastreddrop@toot.community]

@fasterandworse except people actually enjoy smoking before they get cancer

[kimcrawley@zeroes.ca]

@juliehuz @fasterandworse

You think capitalist countries are democracies?!

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens : Martin Gilens, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and Benjamin I. Page, Professor of Decision Making at Northwestern University. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sometimes known as the oligarchy study.    The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing...

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[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@fasterandworse
My day job started okay but has pivoted to building the Torment Nexus out of asbestos and TEL and I haven't yet found a better job.

[perigee@rage.love]

@fasterandworse @trobay yeah I want to get OOOUT!

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@BackFromTheDud @fasterandworse Or "I sell patent medicine."

[rose_alibi@post.lurk.org]

@fasterandworse tech is the only industry other than law enforcement that gets me to say "oh that's too bad" when someone tells me their job

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@fasterandworse We call it the 'leaf farming industry' now.