It's truly insane to see. HN has been filled, for the last decade, with stories and advice about hopping jobs every two years to garner 20-40% pay increases, co

It's truly insane to see. HN has been filled, for the last decade, with stories and advice about hopping jobs every two years to garner 20-40% pay increases, completely oblivious to the bubble that was SO OBVIOUS to some of us. Armies of self-interested careerist strivers doing everything imaginable to optimize their income, in the midst of the biggest tech bubble since 1999, giving precisely zero fucks about the impact their actions had on either their employer, or on broader society (morally disgusting adtech and social media platforms work in particular). And now these same people have the audacity to bitch that the very employers they've been strategically milking with their Machiavellian labor market plays would realize their mistake. No. Full stop. To these people I say: You've been paid $300-400k in total comp for a decade to build platforms that have DEGRADED the society we live in. You have extracted maximum rents from a job market that favored you, to provide NEGATIVE value to society, all while looking down your nose at lowly plumbers, carpenters, and those subhumans in flyover country who grow your food, mine your copper, and produce your electricity. Now the job market no longer favors you, and you, of course, regard this as the fault of everyone else. Fuck off. Fuck right off, right now.