You’re telling me businesses didn’t want to hold meetings in Second Life and consumers didn’t want Facebook harvesting data?
I’m shocked, I say. Shocked!
They can’t kill the metaverse, it was never theirs.
To all those who vehemently shouted me down when I pointed out how utterly stupid an idea this was when they announced it, who were convinced that the amount of money they were throwing at it garaunteed success, I issue a heartfelt: ha. ha.
I don’t remember a single person who was enthusiastic about this.
Reddit had plenty of shills. Hell like a month or two ago when they announced another setback there were people here saying it was a good idea but they had given up on it.
So, I do.
Ever thought about that those could be bots??
Also I could also say something like “for those that shot me down for saying the earth isn’t flat, suck it!”. While those people do exist they are an insignificant minority
Nice, get rekt, Zucc.
it’ll cost 16,000 jobs
wonder when software devs will get serious about unionizing
this will never happen in the current landscape; it’s controlled by libertarian & neoliberal people who detest collectivism in all of its forms.
and toxically so, my psychological well being has improve dramatically ever since leaving the field.
I really think it’ll depend on how bad the employment situation gets. At some point people are going to start realizing they’re not temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, and that their interests aren’t aligned with the oligarchs. Software devs have been largely insulated from general economic problems until recently. Getting a job has been relatively easy, the pay was way above what most people make, and that fed individualistic behavior. Now that jobs are becoming scarce, and there’s a huge pool of laid off workers, people are starting to get concerned.
I love the couple days a week I don’t have to work with software developers, in my experience they generally have a god complex comparable to surgeons, so good luck to the unemployed software developers starting a union I suppose because any of them that stay employed are just going to grow their ego further until it crumbles on top of them.
those conditions describe the entirety of the united states and, yet, unionization is still abysmally weak.
and i would expect that an entire field whose members have prided themselves on anti-collectivization would be less apt to adopt a union than any other field.
I guess we’ll see, but I do think people will start adapting to their new reality out of necessity.
Out of the frying pan…
