Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 8

i'm coming around to the opinion that if you aren't unionized i don't care what consumer-friendly ethics you pretend to practice

this post brought to you by the extremely awkward silence in tech about npm's union-busting and amazon's hand in the camps from otherwise outright antifascist companies

your boss isn't a socialist if they don't let you have a union, Laurie

@wintgenstein quality discourse

@wintgenstein is that what games twitter is like? every region of twitter is incomprehensible to me now

@efi yeah same 😂 😭

@efi how so?

it's not that tech is bad but that prevailing powers drive us to make bad tech and to use tech for bad things. it doesn't have to be like this any more than a factory has to disenfranchise workers. we can make good things. we can be good to each other.

i guess i am a sort of neo-luddite, huh

@wxcafe neo-luddites unite

partner lucy called me out for having only three takes:
- "this game is actually a tech demo"
- "tech needs unions to be any good"
- "this game would be a better game under socialism"

software under capitalism will never solve the labor crunch that plagues it. the profiteer will reintegrate whatever labor hours your tools liberate; the rentier will haunt whatever audit system you staff. the overworked maintainer looms large over the ecosystem's fragile ligaments wherever overwork remains the path to survival.