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Interestingly I’m a few years over 30 years info my tech career and it was avoid 10 years ago I could see the fnords at last. There is no safety, there never wa
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
Interestingly I’m a few years over 30 years info my tech career and it was avoid 10 years ago I could see the fnords at last. There is no safety, there never was. There’s no golden ring, there is no winning, there is no camaraderie, there is no value in promotion, the respect of your peers is meaningless, and it’s all just a sham to get you to expend more of your soul for less money. Once I had pierced the ceiling into ultra senior management of mega corps and was able to see how the system worked from top to bottom, it was obvious. The shared delusion is increasing apparent as you get more senior. You see yourself telling people to tell the lies knowing it’s a lie, and see the lie spread throughout the organization.
If you want material substance and human connection you have to take the lie of corporate life out of the equation, the lie of scarce seniority, the lie of compensation for merit, the lie of peer respect, the lie of all the various attachments and see reality for what it is. You may still keep doing the lies, I do, because they’re functionally useful and I’ve got financial commitments and need their money. But I know what it all is now, and my life is much richer for it.
If you seek that realizing you’ve been deceived by a massive shared illusion, you will find what you thought you had.
- mancerayder 4y agoPeople seem to internalize and conform to the organizational imperative, either because they're well-compensated, they have family or external dependencies of high salary and stability, or they've numbed themselves to how organizations of people tend to turn into. Whichever of these, it's a self-selection bias of who remains long enough to get promoted upwards.
- musicale 4y ago> it’s all just a sham to get you to expend more of your soul for less money This is a concise and accurate summary.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoIndeed it is. I have lately been thinking more and more about the cooperative model as a viable alternative to the standard corporate model for software companies...
- nickd2001 4y agoI'm just surprised people buy into the corporate nonsense in the first place. You have to be pretty intelligent to be a software developer.... yet... many of the same intelligent people appear not to understand how they're being manipulated in the workplace. Or the fact that looking after one another is a better idea for everyone, than competing against each other and behaving in a dog-eat-dog manner. In my experience, one can find camaraderie, human connection and lifelong friends, from a few people at any private (corporate) workplace. In public sector workplaces where the profit motive is less dominant and people stay longer in the job, I've found it easier to make friendships with nice people who I think if we worked in private sector it'd be "admiration from afar" . Many of us have worked in corporations where we have team-mates where there's respect and mutual appreciation but everyone's just too busy to connect, people move on etc . I think the answer is, be healthily skeptical about any corporate employer you work for and try to be kind to colleagues. Don't take it personally if the machine screws people over, and maintain good friendships outside of work
- aaomidi 4y agoYou don’t really have to be intelligent to be a software dev. Literally just look at all the blockchain crap.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoI don’t think that shows a lack of intelligence but a lack of either pragmatism or ethics, depending on the motive.