The #tech industry pays well, especially if you’ve been working in it for more than a few years.

[monkeyninja@10base2.dev]

The #tech industry pays well, especially if you’ve been working in it for more than a few years. I’ve often wondered if that steady paycheck makes people forget. It really seems like some folks lose sight of what living without money means, even when they grew up with food insecurity as a part of their life experience.

For instance, I’ll see posts where #infosec folks absolutely lambast anyone who doesn’t use a service like Tuta or Protonmail for emails and just will not hear it when people say, “Hey, it’s a good idea you’ve got there, but the reason you know this is important is because you work in the industry and unless you can explain why it is important without being an ass, you’re not convincing anyone.”

Spinning up private, encrypted Nextcloud instances sounds amazing! How do you think someone is going to do that when they are worried about access to food? You have a spare computer under your desk running your Plex server and you’re yelling at someone who doesn’t have their own internet connection and is only able to get access to the internet from the library.

Knowledge is just another kind of privilege. Don’t use yours to punch down, use it to educate and elevate.