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You are being fucked by the dominant class and the majority of you are ok with it!
The Ratchet Effect, baby.
Dig it.
the american dream
About a third to a quarter of Americans are fine with this and stand to profit from it (or they think they do). The rest, while the majority, has no political power to affect meaningful change.
Outside of your local elections, at least.
In a national context, you’re right.
Effect*
For the down voters, they’re right. This is one of the few circumstances where effect is used as a verb.
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But under communism you have no dreams
Other countries are communist?
You’ll have OUR dreams
I make 50k+ a year more than my peers coding in the EU 🤷♂️
I also make a much higher salary than my SWE friends in the EU. But:
- I’ve been at this for 25 years
- grinding - my work-life balance is garbage compared to my European friends in SWE
- regularly dealing with a fuckton of uncertainty
- had my retirement completely gutted by my partner’s cancer treatment
- got my stock portfolio screwed up because of my significant ESPP; my theretofore trustworthy, reliable employer decided to sell to a private equity firm
- get to travel very little and have to work when I do because of paltry PTO policies; and I get “generous” PTO compared to most of my US SWE peers; my PTO is decadent compared to most US proletariat
I could really go on. That great, yuuuuge, beautiful salary difference is deeply undercut to the point of collapse by everything all of the other costs (not just financial) that are co-requisite to working in the US.
Yeah the actual numbers don’t mean anything.
If you make $10k/month and have a hard time while somebody makes €2.5k/month and has a comfortable life, who is the richest?
🤣 sure let’s compress a highly multidimensional issue into your income without comparing anything else. You guys don’t even have sidewalks in most areas 🤣
You’re right, they have “pavements”
It’s amazing that you can say all that without realizing it directly applies to the tweet 🤣.
I’m curious: how many hours do you work per week, and how much vacation do you have/year?
30-35 real hours, 12 federal and 25 sick/PTO.
What do you mean “real”? Regardless, that’s a lot better than I suspected!
Personal projects when I should be coding, talking to co workers, general lost time to estimates in time tracking.
Sick days and paid time off are the same thing? That’s horrifying.
My PTO with my holidays time is slightly less than the average EU total with separate sick. I’m more than happy for the flexibility and additional time.
The notion of it being one pool is insane to me. I’m a bit too tired to get into it so “tremendously exploitative and problematic” will have to suffice.
