Is this a roundabout way of saying that they wish to hire folks on a short term basis, make them work really hard, pay pennies on the dollar and then fire them?

      • grindemup@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Lol so you are denigrating companies that don’t take VC funding? I imagine you’d have criticisms for companies which are VC-funded.

        My company is bootstrapped which means we are forced to grow in a sustainable way, we listen to our customers and optimize the product for their experience, and we don’t have to listen to any investors.

        I’m very curious why “bootstrap” would be any sort of dogwhistle.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      This meme made me look up the term “bootstrapped.”

      Which then made me wonder what a “bootstrap” is even supposed to look like.

      Which led to a frustrating failure of an image search where I learned that even DuckDuckGo stopped accepting a minus sign to exclude search terms. Trying to look up any combination of “bootstrap -code -coding -web” etc. failed to bring up anything except the purple Bootstrap logo. My search was eventually resolved by separating the word into “boot” and “strap,” but that’s bullshit because according to multiple dictionary sites, “bootstrap” (in reference to a strap attached to a boot) is, indeed, one word. I even tried Google (lord help me), just to confirm this isn’t some niche DDG difference.

      It seems that literal bootstraps are so out of fashion, that simply finding pictures of them is a challenge. Yet people keep using the phrase “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” as if it’s an intuitive symbol everyone understands. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never used bootstraps, and the concept sounds as old-timey as hitching a wagon to a horse.