Since my wonderful time living in the US and studying about systems of oppression, and inequality, the thought of working a corporate job again has always been terrifying to me. The office politics. The late nights. The exploitation. The numbness of whatever is going on around you. The lack of agency - aka having an opinion. Your opinion doesn’t matter, only profits matter. It’s been years since I left that terrible job at a Silicon Valley tech startup but the pain, the lessons, the disillusionment, everything exposed still aches in my heart. I can’t stand knowing where all of this will lead to (more profits taking to the top, destruction of environments, more tech surveillance, more psychopaths running the world using our labor to hoard wealth and boost inequality) and at the same time...
Not sure if this is also the case in other nations but since I’m living in Bulgaria right now. I will document what I see.
Background: Young Asian woman working in Sofia as a software / AI engineer in an international company so I speak English at work and don’t speak Bulgarian.
If I have to select a few words to describe “these people”, I would say these dominant key traits: mean, rude, xenophobic, backwards, conservative, grumpy and depressing.
I have seen many Bulgarians openly admit how hateful they are towards everyone, especially people that do not look like the norm here such as LGBT+, foreigners, non-white people, etc. Some of them even go further and feel justified in their “equal” hatred to all groups of people so they would absolutely reject it if you cal...