Btw for those who don’t know, this app is called Blind. It’s where tech workers go to anonymously post. Also 700k TC is basically their yearly take-home pay, and it’s a real number (see levels.fyi)
These people are disgusting, contributing nothing to society, not realizing how privileged they are, while the Lemmy devs live in poverty
At this point, I’m pretty certain that all or most of those comments- and the OP are just bots.
Lol, what? This is so dumb. I’m sure there’s some few people that make close to 700k, but even the most talented devs and other salaried workers I know are making 200k-300k maximum. If I’m thinking of the average, probably around 150k.
Yes, that’s a lot of money. Yes, people should be better about recognizing their privilege. Yes, this person seems like a huge asshole, but that would probably be true even if they were broke.
But at the end of the day, these people that you’re hating on are so far below the insanely wealthy. Even 700k is far below people who make 10s of millions in passive income, or the ones who are worth billions. Like, we shouldn’t ignore shitty behavior and awful mindsets like the people in the post have, but they’re really not the same as the people who are truly exploitating the working class.
By encouraging this bullshit class fighting you’re only doing what the truly wealthy want you to do. This is bullshit, his salary isn’t that but it’s probably that after compensation - which can easily be taken away by layoffs or whatever.
All you’re doing is listening to rage bait and biting. Working class people shouldn’t be infighting, we should be fighting against the owning class. This is just distraction.
If you are going to take your angst at capitalism and point it at other workers, overpaid or no, you are both shooting yourself in the foot and undermining your own points. Point your anger at the owning class who makes magnitudes more money by doing and producing nothing, who actively works against your political aims, and generally makes the world a worse place.
I work with devs who make 500k plus and most of them are fairly progressive people who just got lucky with their choice of profession. They’re not your enemy.
imagine supporting a platform that displays ads
If you’re referring to Reddit, then yes, Reddit is trash
If you’re referring to Blind, it’s too small of a platform for anyone to have made an adblocking Android version. I could run an ad blocking DNS but I’m dumb :(
There’s a handful of Android apps that very efficiently run as a mini VPN service on your phone, using custom DNS and blocklists. Then your phone connects to the “VPN” running from the app to do adblocking etc. You can set up specific rules and bypasses per app as needed.
I use Blockada 4, but I think they’ve went paid in 5 and up. There’s also DNS66 and RethinkDNS.
