chobeat

co-operatives are started by worker's initiative. It's not something that comes to save you. If there's no co-op in your area, start learning what you need to start one, govern one, and how to find co-op funding.

It depends on where you live and what you're looking for in life.

The people who wrote that page are mostly from the organization discussed in the article. Struggling doesn't mean they never achieved anything. Also maybe go beyond the title.

In Italy they are probably above 90% of the workforce. They are the defining form of IT sector. In the USA way less, and also individual contractors are legal, while in Italy they are not, so there's a whole issue of illicit dynamics ("body rental") which in the USA are equally a problem, but they are not illicit and nobody cares about them.

Shitty, exploitative consultancies exist wherever there's an IT sector, but in certain countries, like Italy, Brazil, or Romania, they are the only form and this shapes the union landscape a lot. Romenia proves that this is not a blocker to achieve high union density though.

I'm far from being a doomer. I just don't believe technology will save us. There are better ways.

open source startups are still part of the same ecosystem that fuels big tech. Big tech, being more powerful, can capture commons very easily and that's true for the vast majority of open-source code. The very concept of open-source was conceived by a person with the same ideological and cultural background of the tech oligarchs now in power.

Until it starts using its power to decide what technology and contracts are taken by the company. That's the endgame of the tech labor movement and the labor movement in a lot of industries that deal with ugly stuff.

Also there's no ethical production under capitalism.

By working for a company and thus make them dependent on your labor (to some degree) you have power. By not working for that company, you have no power.

There are also people staying to try to unionize or sabotage the company. Don't bundle them with the scabs. Quitting won't change much within meta.