devils_dust [none/use name]

I think I had a much more exploitative relationship working in one of the big Brazilian public sector tech companies than I am doing right now in a private company.

Fellow Brazilian IT worker here. Always felt the same regarding cultural differences between Brazilian countries and US companies, even though the sizes of companies I worked for were different (mostly bigcos in the home country, startups when I started working remotely).

When I was less politically literate I listened more to arguments about decentralization of power that are usually in that line between liberalism and anarchism. Lots of people here do the same.

The directors of the public state-owned companies are actually indicated from outside (politicians, top level bureaucrats and executives from the private sector) based on a neoliberal agenda that seek to provide services to provide data and public information for private companies

Most of our fellow citizens already associate the state with “corruption” due to that agenda, unfortunately. There is a cultural barrier to be won here. Tech has always branded itself as “revolutionary” and utopianistic, we could and should use that for good.

Gotcha, seems like a similar trajectory to many comrades who were more liberal - when they figure out the end result of “free” market competition it’s almost a straight line towards Marx

there was this weird phase in US anarchism, where a whole lot of anarcho-capitalists finally started becoming anti-capitalist (which is good of course) and they wrote a whole book about it like they just personally came up with the idea capitalism is bad for the first time ever

Can you give more details on these people and this book? I always found ancaps very ideologically incoherent, wondering how they got around to reinventing Marxism using their own theory

Capital volume 2 is such a change of tone and pace that almost made me give up. Volume 1 is very readable, especially after the hard first chapters. Volume 2 feels like it’s back to that style, but for the entire book.

Also using Emacs. If you are a dev magit is another must have. Even if there was a decent substitute for it (which I doubt - saw a lot of IDE churn and Emacs was very capable of keeping up with the times) I’d still use it just to use it and Org-mode.