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How much can I ask from BNY Mellon for the role of Lead Full-Stack Engineer.
My Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, React, Node and AWS
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proletariat that are paid better than most
Unless one owns substantial assets and doesn’t need a day job and has enough $$$ to be idle rich should they choose so, they are proles plain and simple. Tech workers with no agency who get bossed around by some dumb PM, indebted lawyers who don’t have their own firm, indebted doctors who work at some PE owned hospital, consultants who can’t affored a home —-> all proles regardless of how much they think otherwise. Their livelihood is still at the mercy of others’ whims
The bourgeois is a very small % of the population with immense influence. A household in a high COL area with a dual income of 350k still paying off their first mortgage is not a part of that club
love how many boot lickers there are out there in this world lol
nobody, no matter how hard they wish, are bourgeoisie UNLESS they can afford to just.... stop working and do whatever the heck they want. Anyone that can do 'whatever they want, at any time' - are the wealthy, and therefore make too much money.
IT workers are higher paid proles for sure. dollar store bourgeoisie for sure. definitely not bourgeoisie.
Real bourgeoisie wouldn't be on glassdoor. Their time is 'far too valuable'. The reason why the bourgeoisie have maids, chefs, etc -- they outsourced that 'issue' to someone else to deal with.......
Marx and Engels used the term "Petite Bourgeoisie" to refer to the class between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, with examples being craftsmen, independent skilled laborers and small business owners. They theorized that, because they were not part of the dominant ruling class and unlikely to break into that ruling class, they would often rise to help maintain the control of the bourgeoisie for the sake of stability until they would be crushed back into the proletariat as technology advanced.
That's where we are: majority of tech workers do not struggle enough to want to see struggle or strife. Every year it's a little bit worse than the previous in terms of income relative to inflation, and there's plenty of money to be made automating away the need for us.
Yeah, many MANY tech workers are petit bourgeoisie. Typified by a continuous lust for improvement of economic position and the desire to hoard capital. Some are for sure proles though - it's more a function of why you work and what you do with your salary IMO.
Interesting question! I agree that we are mostly proletariat, but we own a portion of the means of production, don't we? We don't own the server farms but isn't coding knowledge the key tool for digital production?