When the Tech Bros Come for Me

"Then, the tech bros came for the delivery drivers, and I said nothing. Calling them gig workers, working them insane hours, stripping them of their basic rights and dignity, forcing them to pee in Coke bottles, demanding that they dance and smile for me."

Forced? How so. There are plenty of jobs out there.

"Next, the tech bros came for the taxi drivers, and I said nothing. Undercutting them and stripping away their ability to make a decent living, making them work horrendous hours, and tracking them, always tracking them, turning them into data points chasing ratings."

Taxi drivers had the medallion system. It costs $1,000,000 for a medallion in most major cities and only a select few could get one and make a decent living driving a Taxi (while also having debt for life).

Uber and Lyft made it so anyone could make extra money driving their own car. There was never a promise of a living. I know lots of people that made good money driving Uber and Lyft, until the unions started suing.

"Next, the tech bros came for the musicians, and I said nothing. Stealing their music outright and making megabucks. Then, when they couldn’t simply steal it anymore, paying musicians less than peanuts, impoverishing them and stripping them of dignity and the opportunity to make a decent living."

LOL. Where were you in the 2000s? Piracy destroyed the market for musicians. I knew tons of people that made a living as an independent artist. Rampant piracy made music a commodity and as a result: Only large labels were able to make money selling music because nobody is willing to pay for it anymore.

"Then, the tech bros came for the writers and creative artists, and I said nothing. Stealing all the data to feed to their AI so that it could pretend to be the humans it stole from, while stealing their jobs and their talents by churning out quick, cheap trashy, lying versions of everything."

I should use some of the same arguments here that I've seen over the years when it comes to piracy of software and music. I'm kind of glad many of the same people that justified piracy all of these years are now losing their shirts to the same thing. You can't download a car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Then, the tech bros came for democracy, and I said nothing. Flooding the environment with misinformation, feeding and nurturing the very worst in us, monetizing our hate, promoting the fascists who promised them more power."

Funny you mention this, when the Biden administration colluded with all of the major tech organizations to spread misinformation and censor Americans. In addition to this, Google just had to admit in court that they censored content creators over their political opinions.

There was almost a law that forced you to get an experimental vaccine (with no way to go after companies for injuries) and people were put in prison over J6 for years just walking near the capital.

I can't take any of this seriously, when we had facism for years and people like you cheered it on and then denied that it even happened.

What a complete load of crap. You don't have to read this garbage. The first tip off that this is completely useless is that the author has conflated tech bros with technology and tech companies. If you think there's something valuable after that, then by all means feel free to keep reading it.