I think I had a much more exploitative relationship working in one of the big Brazilian public sector tech companies than I am doing right now in a private company.
Fellow Brazilian IT worker here. Always felt the same regarding cultural differences between Brazilian countries and US companies, even though the sizes of companies I worked for were different (mostly bigcos in the home country, startups when I started working remotely).
When I was less politically literate I listened more to arguments about decentralization of power that are usually in that line between liberalism and anarchism. Lots of people here do the same.
The directors of the public state-owned companies are actually indicated from outside (politicians, top level bureaucrats and executives from the private sector) based on a neoliberal agenda that seek to provide services to provide data and public information for private companies
Most of our fellow citizens already associate the state with “corruption” due to that agenda, unfortunately. There is a cultural barrier to be won here. Tech has always branded itself as “revolutionary” and utopianistic, we could and should use that for good.
Fellow Brazilian IT worker here. Always felt the same regarding cultural differences between Brazilian countries and US companies, even though the sizes of companies I worked for were different (mostly bigcos in the home country, startups when I started working remotely).
When I was less politically literate I listened more to arguments about decentralization of power that are usually in that line between liberalism and anarchism. Lots of people here do the same.
Most of our fellow citizens already associate the state with “corruption” due to that agenda, unfortunately. There is a cultural barrier to be won here. Tech has always branded itself as “revolutionary” and utopianistic, we could and should use that for good.