As someone who works outside the Bay Area, this article feels weird to me. The summary of the article: - Author interned at Google. It was boring but good pay.

As someone who works outside the Bay Area, this article feels weird to me. The summary of the article: - Author interned at Google. It was boring but good pay. - Because of this, never went back. Started a startup, built a product. Product did not make enough money. Realised making money is important. Tried to pivot something they thought could make lots of money but hated (adtech) and forced themselves to network with the adtech people they despised. It did not work out. - Concludes it sucks that in SV engineers are highly paid and well treated and that they don’t organise to stand up for a totally different group who the author believes is low paid and not well treated. - Concludes how tech is broken. My two cents: welcome to the real world. Companies exist to make money. People will try to work at the best place they can make it to. Governments can shape the redistribution of wealth and social responsibility with rules and regulations, among others.