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The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!
We can't keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.
We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.
Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.
https://www.goeuropean.org/
Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?
I use infomaniak
Proton mail is swiss and is great. If by cloud you mean cloud storage it also has proton drive; if you mean aws, I don't know though.
Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.
EU is going down the same path. The "EU alternative" stuff is just bogus. It's just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.
It's not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are "European" they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.
Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that's something...
Chat Control comes to mind.
Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews.
I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.
Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.
The "bodega romanticism" is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of "bodegas" actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.
I don't think AI is to blame. They just don't need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn't fire them.