prole [any, any]

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  • I work for a huge international company no one has ever heard of and they laid off hundreds of people and outsourced 100+ more over the last two years. All in the US, teams in other countries don’t seem to have any changes. I have no idea how I survived, they wiped out my whole team except for me and one other person.

    I’ve been job hunting for years off and on, at least 100 applications and I have only gotten a couple interviews for equally shitty companies. I can’t see things getting better any time soon, only worse. The companies know they have us locked in and I already feel the pressure to give more and more to avoid the next round of layoffs. I do 3-5x the work of any other person in measurable ways and who fucking knows how much shit I do behind the scenes.


















  • At first I doubted this, but then I started thinking about the people driving the Russian rev in 1917 and they were pretty much all 30+ or even older.

    Same thing in Cuba. China was also a bunch of olds even before the CPC was established and they were just overthrowing the Qing dynasty.

    I’ve never really thought too hard about this, but it’s interesting considering there’s a common belief in many leftist circles (particularly anarchists it seems) that people over ~25 can’t be trusted. I guess that sort of makes sense, older people (especially in the imperial core) are much more attached to the status quo.

    Now I’m wondering if the feds managed to plant this idea as a way to keep people disorganized and further divide the proletariat or if we just suck at thinking long-term