Notices by Queen Dyspraxia (shoutcacophony@anticapitalist.party), page 15

@artsyhonker @thamesynne seconded

@patience it scales, too. gentrification: bourgie mixed with "lol what" super bourgie, hypergentrification: "are you kidding me" bourgie, normalized

i don't think poor and working class neighborhoods clamor for breakfast cereal bars, artisinal mac and cheese, and -- oh ffs, you need to stop, like, right now

@patience there most definitely is, i've seen it happen several times, and researched it happening as well. it's a clear, unmistakable pattern.

@patience oh, ok. no, that's just gentrifier bullshit. the only way to fix that is to either stop or at least cut way back and spend their money on whatever "before" is left. or give it away.

that *still* won't fix capitalism, or even the situation itself, but it's not that...erm, evil shit *waves hands* whatever the fuck

@patience

there is a very pernicious culture of amnesia in the industry, too. this "the crashes never happened" stuff keeps people unaware.

that and having all the new toys, like you said.

@patience yeah. i just...*massages face*

that said, i get how tech as a hobby, or even a hobby that's turned into paid work, has its appeals. also, people need to eat. i get that as well.

but...i mean, look at it.

hot burning garbage.

i see people with interests in tech (including professionally) struggling with this a lot. how to make things better? how can we affect change in a positive way? what's the optimal way to do that?

*not a screed against labor*

and yet...the tech industry is still hypergentrifying hot burning garbage. that's run by billionaire nazi vampires, and their lackeys.

sooooooooo. :blobcat:

or that they don't have a lengthy commute to a cheaper zip code

so then they have no free time, and no energy to do anything with it, even if they did

anything. not just movement work (which takes a lot of focus and energy to do well, or even not that well), anything at all

lawn bowling. anything

presuming that they're not working 80-130 hours a week, that is. (not a typo)

the standing rule in tech = we own you, and all that's around you

(corrections, because i think this is important)

even if you make "good money", it's not good money to the level of balancing out the negative effects of the industry

not even close

this also presumes that someone's going to have the time and inclination to do something good with all that money

it also presumes that they're not spending a lot of that money on survival in some very expensive zipcode

typos. you get the idea

even if you make "good money", it's not good money to the level of balancing out the negative effects of the industry

not even close

this also presumes that someone's going to have the time and inclination. if they're not spending a lot of that money on survival in in some very expensive zipcode

or having a lengthy commute to a cheaper zip code, so then they have no free time, and even if they did, they have no energy to do with their free time

if they have free time

i remember when the tech industry was "sketchy" problematic, as opposed to "hot burning garbage hypergentrification billionaire nazi vampires" problematic

i don't always know what to do with this knowledge and lived experience, tbh. turning back the clock tends to not work, and turning things back to "sketchy" isn't really, erm, movement politics (nor should it be imo)

start a tech co-op? i mean, fine, i suppose. but also: why

seriously: why