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Do "most" posters at HN work at FAANG or in adtech? There's a lot of those people here for sure, but I can't believe they're anything close to the majority.
by whoooooo123 4y ago
Do "most" posters at HN work at FAANG or in adtech? There's a lot of those people here for sure, but I can't believe they're anything close to the majority.
- Bakary 4y agoI don't have actual stats of course but intuitively if you tally: - All the FAANG/FAANG suppliers - All startups or established projects that involve data gathering, advertising, SEO, skinner boxes, dopamine response, parasocial relationship manipulation, optimizing time spent on controlled platforms and products - All projects that facilitate the above as suppliers or second-order businesses - All gig economy/surveilled/taylorized work facilitators - All coding work that involves ranking and surveilling people for life altering services such as loans, insurance, healthcare - All coding work done to optimize the wealth of the noble class (themselves the main beneficiaries of surveillance) ...there's probably not much left. Even if you maintain a strict definition and include only direct adtech shenanigans I wouldn't be surprised if that were a huge number in and of itself.
- sosborn 4y agoI think your assumptions are incorrect, but it would be really fun/interesting to test our thoughts out with a user survey.