Software Labour and Alienation

Here I provide sketches of parallels between Marx’s theory of alienation and software world. Obviously we have fine-grained classes of:

  • engineers
  • technical support
  • IT stuff
  • architects
  • managers

The notion of software factory also brings its share too. I guess the current software work place standards would be seen as nightmarish conditions to future generations of software engineers in 22nd century. 

To finish this topic with a joke: I remember one manager in one of my previous companies told me not to say “delete Manager [object]” during presentation of system architecture.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

           

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