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> sell them like they are saving humanity. It is just sales all the way down. Yeah this is the core of it. Most American devs realize this way too late, and as
by dogman144 5y ago
> sell them like they are saving humanity. It is just sales all the way down.
Yeah this is the core of it. Most American devs realize this way too late, and as a result I think it powers the activism at US companies. Later in the game, they realize it’s all some form of adtech/sales/so on all the way down, so want to inject new meaning into their employment narrative.
I don’t have an answer for you other than agreeing with you. If you’re ok not looking for deep meaning through work, tech can present compensation and work life balance fo basically check out any direction of meaning fulfillment you like. Just… what to do? I empathize a lot.
Fwiw, my loose solution is two approaches:
- working in tech companies or open source projects that really present something different as an industry outlook if things work out. Crypto/btc open source comes to mind.
- or, seek out the really high comp tech jobs that are non-FAANG, and buy a new life basically after a few years there and saving.
- brainless 5y agoI agree with the two approaches. I have never worked with FAANG, but I have worked in adtech and I felt suffocated. Open source (or source available to keep big vultures away) can surely work as a sustainable business model, just that this takes longer to develop. If I chose to not have lock-in in my products, to encourage people to self-host and own their platform/data, of course it will not allow me to scale to unicorn status. But that is not my target. I would rather see people use my product, pay a fee voluntarily, and not be locked-in.