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One time in college Friend A was going to drive us someplace. She started the car and said, “You ready, baby?”

Friend B in the front seat went, “…yeah?”

Friend A snapped, “I was talking to the car”

Dunno why I still think about that sometimes. Lost touch with those friends years ago.

I’ve made this argument before, with limited success.

Voting is fairly cheap. Just abandoning that entire front in the conflict is stupid.

I mean, I guess that’s technically true for some people. Unfortunately, most people aren’t in a position to fire anyone or force them to learn anything. And the people who do have that power typically don’t care or understand the problem. Whatever capitalist husk is calling the shots isn’t going to want to spend money training their HR goons to learn software development.

What is the solution?

I don’t think they can. HR seems to be full of people who are trying to hire for roles they don’t understand. Everyone who works in web development has probably encountered stuff like “Do you know java or javascript? Either is fine” from HR screening calls.

Yeah, exactly. People think capitalism means competition, but that’s not a great definition of it. It means capital gets to call the shots and keep the profits, even when they’re not doing any meaningful work.

You could have any number of companies competing that are worker owned.

Seems reasonable. There’s always more that could be done, and hopefully this isn’t where the mayor stops.

I’d rather ban future Gavin Newsom.