▲ 637 ▼ U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October (thefivepost.com) submitted 11 months ago by cyrano@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/28484448
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children) We would need capital and we would be competing with people that practically own politicians. Free market capitalism! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (2 children) Tbf, unless there's some massive capital expense that I'm not thinking about, you don't really need any capital for doing software related work besides a computer, which most people already have anyway and maybe some office space. Software is about as capital lite as an industry can be, so if making a workers co-op under capitalism is going to work in any industry, it would be software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Salaries? Unless you just go the startup route and pay people in promises and equity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago Sure but we're talking about people who got laid of, they're not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but I think it's better than being unemployed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (2 children) Tbf, unless there's some massive capital expense that I'm not thinking about, you don't really need any capital for doing software related work besides a computer, which most people already have anyway and maybe some office space. Software is about as capital lite as an industry can be, so if making a workers co-op under capitalism is going to work in any industry, it would be software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Salaries? Unless you just go the startup route and pay people in promises and equity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago Sure but we're talking about people who got laid of, they're not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but I think it's better than being unemployed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 point 11 months ago (1 child) Salaries? Unless you just go the startup route and pay people in promises and equity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago Sure but we're talking about people who got laid of, they're not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but I think it's better than being unemployed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago Sure but we're talking about people who got laid of, they're not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but I think it's better than being unemployed permalink fedilink source parent