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Had another weird #dream about the place where I worked from the early naughties to the early-mid teens.

The place has now literally been closed down, sold, and has now become a High School (!?!?), but it still lives rent-free in my head.

In the dream, I was in the post-outsourcing hell season, and when I was going to leave for the day, they (facilities people who worked for the company I was outsourced to work for, which I used to be an employee of) told me I had to take my stuff with me, because they were renovating. I told them I had left my laptop on my desk (as I often did) and that I'd have to go back and get it. They said that I couldn't, but I talked my way out of it.

I immediately found myself going through a chemical maze with a hazmat suit on. Think of the Chernoybl TV series. Everything was scrapped and slathered with goopy paint thinner (?!?!?). I was in basement-looking somewhat nightmarish parts, getting totally lost (in a place I worked in for over a decade, lol), and finally found my way out to where things were already renovated, and it was totally opulent, Trump-tower looking shiz. The execs making more room for their profligacy, obviously.

After much time feeling lost, scrambling about, I finally find my desk in a not-yet-renovated, not-chemical-hell-looking part of the datacenter. So, I scoop up my laptop and books (?), and get out of there.

Guys, in reality, I left that place over a dozen years ago! And still, rent-free in my head.

You see, that place was one of those really stable shops where once you got a job there, you had a job for life, you enjoyed the respect of your peers and superiors, and you made great things.
Then in the mid-naughties, the very large company that owned us sold us. We were bought out by a consortium of #VultureCapitalists, who immediately wrote themselves a billion dollar check with our company's credit (debt), and outsourced the bulk of the I.T. workforce to a large douchebag tech company you all know, and if you have a gram of sense, hate.

This is just one small microcosm of what has happened in the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the Western world) in the past 20 years.

#Dreams #Capitalism #Crapitalism #LateStage #LateStageCapitalism

@KimPerales Why would #DonaldTheDeplorable give #American farmers #BailOuts to keep them out of bankruptcy?

#Trump and his cronies are #VultureCapitalists eagerly waiting to buy their farmland ‘on the cheap’ - again! https://www.salon.com/2018/09/19/how-trump-benefitted-from-the-2008-recession_partner/

#Resist the #TrumpCrimeSyndicate and #AmericanCarnage2.0!

@KimPerales Why would #DonaldTheDeplorable give #American farmers #BailOuts to keep them out of bankruptcy?

#Trump and his cronies are #VultureCapitalists eagerly waiting to buy their farmland ‘on the cheap’ - again! https://www.salon.com/2018/09/19/how-trump-benefitted-from-the-2008-recession_partner/

#Resist the #TrumpCrimeSyndicate and #AmericanCarnage2.0!

@TomWellborn

We see the Blatant #Hypocrisy #MAGACultMorons have about Any Subject from A-Z.

In their #Cult of #MAGA it’s Simply whatever their 🍊 #FalseIdol #DonOLDCHUMP Says, they Accept 100%

#DonTheCON 🤡 Surrounded Himself with #ForeignAgents & A Shocking Amount of #Billionaire & #Trillionaire #VultureCapitalists who Simply want to #DeRegulate & Squeeze More #Profits out of Economically Vulnerable Americans 🇺🇸

#TrumpPardonComparison

@LWFlouisa nope. It started with #DotComBubble in the 90s, and the winners of each round of the Survivor Startup have become the next generation of #VultureCapitalists. Eg. take #AndreesonHorowitz. Andreeson co-founded #Netscape and Horowitz worked there too, before #AOL acquired it. Then they co-founded #LoudCloud, made it to #IPO, then sold its customers to #EDS, and pivoted to #Opsware, which was acquired by #HP in 2007 for US$1.6 billion.
@z428 @pootz