I can’t find a job.
Well I could but there doesn’t seem to be any jobs that fit.
Or if there are I can’t find them. (But I don’t think so)

The biggest problem is that I live in estonia and it seems there really isn’t a well-developed anarchist/socialist/syndicalist movement here. The IWW doesn’t have a branch and searching online doesn’t really yield any results (aside from a couple of socdem groups),

I don’t know how to search for a job that isn’t just doing menial labour for some company.

I would like to work for a global fully-remote anarchically managed tech syndicate. But I don’t think those exist and I imagine starting one is incredibly difficult. (Well starting it wouldn’t be difficult, but finding people capable and willing to work for something like that, while getting enough income, is.)

At the end of the day the means dictate the ends. Looking for a job in a capitalist way is going to land you with a capitalist job. I need to look for a job in a anarchist/socialist/syndicalist way, but how do you do that in an environment where those ideas aren’t widespread?

  • Alexander@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    Well, there is one important difference when it comes from manual labor to IT: the latter scales a lot. One person writes a silly piece of code, millions of copies get sold effortlessly, and that’s no limit. So much, that capitalists have no idea how to structure payroll - giving a dev fair share would make them rich enough to stop working immediately - so things like “competitive salary (with respect to your location)” are a thing - just paying enough so that you can’t be lured away by competitors.

    But it’s not the perspective I want to highlight. What’s more important, is that value production in IT is so much distorted to benefit the capitalist instead of worker, that no matter how many unions you get in, how much you rob the system, you are collaborating with the bad guys at a scale that’s just on different level. Yes, the payment is often empowering enough to do good things with extra cash, but that’s the situation where taking care of ethics is more important than with “regular” jobs.

    Same stuff could be said about finance and military tech, I guess. They scale madly too, just in different ways. So silly of me to get involved in all of these simultaneously.

    I tried switching jobs to manual labor in the last month, but once people see my work history, they just freak out. I’d like to operate a mill or fix ignition electronics, but alas, they think I’ll be bored. People do not understand. Mentally relax on a job to have fun later - what a dream.