It’s a work culture for tech employees where they are expected to be in the office from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 6 days a week

Wow, that is incredible, thank you for writing that up and sharing

Hey, thanks for the response!

I’m going to read those resources you linked real quick but I just wanted to respond to a few things.

In the main I think you helped me see the path “between the horns” of the dilemma I had set up for myself.

I think it goes like:

• A state monopoly union isn’t inherently anti-Marxist any more than state monopoly healthcare
• Just because 996 gets a lot of press doesn’t mean it’s representative of the whole labor market, probably the opposite
• Imperialists gonna imperial and subvert whatever institution they can buy off with dirty money

Finally regarding my friend I don’t have a good read because of the language and culture barrier but they have earned some trust with me. They don’t strike me as reactionary but I could see them being a petite bourgeoisie type.

That was one of the options I considered in my post, but I obviously found it too unsatisfying not to write out all that text.

I did a bit more research after your comment and it appears to be true that the only legal labor organizing goes through the state union. I also think I have seen enough evidence to believe that 996 work culture is real and not a Western fabrication. That doesn’t leave me personally with “nothing to see here”.

I want to be wrong! I don’t think we have any better archetypes to look up to

I have only leaned a bit of the Cs, but others have written that learning Rust first is a great way to learn the concepts and best practices of those languages.

A lot of the difficult concepts (pointers, ownership, multi thread concurrency) are shared between all three.

I love Rust but specifically for a beginner it could be challenging. Have you learned any other languages or would it be your first?

Hey look it’s the post that caused me to make a hexbear account