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> I can't think of a more charitable word than "moron". how about just naivety? until you truly get burned, you'd want to believe that other people would have
by chii 4y ago
> I can't think of a more charitable word than "moron".
how about just naivety? until you truly get burned, you'd want to believe that other people would have good intentions.
- voakbasda 4y agoBut do they actually learn? Or ignore the sunk cost of living in the Bay Area and proceed to drink another flavor?
- nowherebeen 4y agoI think cost of living in so high that many have no choice but to drink the koolaid. Software engineers in the US gets paid the highest in the world. The price for it is to become a part of the culture. It's sad, but how else will they be able to afford having a family?
- Ancalagon 4y agoLive…somewhere…else?
- nowherebeen 4y agoThat's not a realistic solution for many people with families.
- Ancalagon 4y agoYou just said SWEs are some of the highest paying positions in the US. Not to mention many are able to work fully remote. It should be feasible that even with a family they can move.
- metadat 4y agoIf you move away then it becomes difficult to justify the high pay. If you move away and persist with the high pay and excessive resource acquisition, then congrats- you've just entered the category of being another needlessly greedy human, like Mollusk.
- hulitu 4y agoBut working 12 hours a day is ?
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoThis is very interesting and reminds me of Shadowrun. Basically these people are living in a cocoon. They get a nice house and salary but in exchange the corporation gets their body and soul.
- idiotsecant 4y agoYes, when you go to a fancy school and make a lot of money you stop being a moron and start being naive.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoIt is not naivety to have a passion (expressed as their work) and to be taken advantage of by management, billionaires, whomever. It's simply exploitation of someone's belief system by someone lacking some combination of morals, ethics, and empathy. Let's not blame good people for the contemptible actions of those exploiting them. We want to encourage more good people who channel their passion into their work (and hopefully that results in progress), and put the contemptible people into metaphorical boxes via laws and regulations to protect others from the harm they cause. If shitty people are still getting wildly wealthy and we keep churning out burned out cynical people in the process, that’s not progress nor sustainable.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoIf you are tolerating exploitation by wealthy sociopaths when there is enough information available to know what they're doing and they have the resources to live a tolerable life without participating are either complicit or willfully naive and credulous. Either way they share the blame.
- quantified 4y agoCan you edit that to be coherent? "You", "they", and the target of "are either..." seem out of sync.
- tpoacher 4y ago"It's their fault for having feelings and empathy that makes them weak, it is my duty as an apex predator to exploit them": every narcissist ever. Sometimes a victim is just a victim.
- Dudeman112 4y ago>It is not naivety to have a passion (expressed as their work) and to be taken advantage of It is. It totally is naivety. I find it incredibly odd that if someone goes to, say, a Brazilian slum showing off their expensive stuff people are fine with labeling them naive when (not if) they get robbed Some people have been so sheltered from reality that they'd put their hands in the mouth of a lion and be surprised when the lion bites it off. At some point it is indeed naivety. And on this specific case it's not even like said billionaires are trying hard to fake decency
- petre 4y agoThat's why they need a union.