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I like my company and I think the logo looks cool. Simple as that. But according to you I have an unhealthy identity problem or longing for validation if I wea

• zeronine 4y ago
  correct
• screye 4y ago
  I admittedly went a little overboard with the tone of my comment. I bet most people do not think as much about company swag. Why rain on your parade right ? I do think tech generally has an unhealthy problem of over-identifying with their company and that there is a certain insular monoculture resulting from it. At the end of the day, tech is situated within the greater social context around it. Any one who has their ears to the ground will know the most common complaints by young people in tech and how it ties into society's perception of young men in tech. I deeply respect anyone does not care about how society perceives them and can march on un-affected. At the same time, I see propagation of incorrect myths and resulting insecurities within younger tech workers. If you are an average human that's susceptible to all the common markers of status around them, then some counter to big-tech koolaid might be in order.
  • Apocryphon 4y ago
    You're right about the creepy over-branding that tech companies often indulge in. But it feels like now, four years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal implicated Facebook, three years after HBO's Silicon Valley ended, two years into the Great Resignation, and at the precipice of an impending recession, people are not looking at tech companies in the same starry-eyed way they did a decade ago.