Tech bosses don’t actually like workers. You can tell by the way they treat the workers they don’t fear. Sure, Tim Cook’s engineers get beer-fattened, chestnut finished and massaged like Kobe cows, but Cook’s factory workers in China are so maltreated that Foxconn (the cutout Apple uses to run “iPhone City” where Apple’s products are made) had to install suicide nets to reduce the amount of spatter from workers who would rather die than put in another hour at Tim Apple’s funtime distraction rectangle factory: Jeff Bezos’s engineers get soft-play areas, one imported Australian barista for each mini-kitchen, and the kind of Japanese toilet that doesn’t just wash you after but also offers you a trim and dye-job, but Amazon delivery drivers are monitored by AIs that narc them out for driving with their mouths open (singing is prohibited in Uncle Jeff’s delivery pods!) and have to piss in bottles; meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers are injured at three times the rate of other warehouse workers.
This is how tech bosses would treat tech workers…if they could.
I mean this is the cold hard truth right? We see this in all professions. The company will look to extract maximum value for minimal pay, its only rational. Reading these two sentences right next to each other is wild.
I think the discomfort I feel is because I’ve see this happen with teacher careers. What was once a middle class option is now severely underpaid.
Quote Citation: Cory Doctorow, “Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”, 2025-11-07, https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others