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The mere suggestion that this story is true makes me want to just quit IT, go back to college, and go into a more honest industry. Is this seriously what we're

The mere suggestion that this story is true makes me want to just quit IT, go back to college, and go into a more honest industry. Is this seriously what we're all working at? A complex power play to get yourself rich at the expense of any morals or integrity? How much is /your/ soul worth? We have real problems in the world, but instead we have a bunch of boys with computers trying to rule the world through their control of media. Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet?

fossuser 15y ago
Every industry has people within it that are unethical or try to game the system for their own benefit at the expense of others. If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad.
- cbs 15y ago
  If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad. Every industry makes this rationalization.
  - fossuser 15y ago
    No doubt, it's up to us to decide where the balance actually lies.
mvzink 15y ago
No, the world isn't seriously this disgusting. What you are looking at isn't even Silicon Valley. It's a bunch of fucking bloggers jerking around. Yeah, there are a lot of people who (for some reason) give a fuck. Some of these bloggers even have significant influence as a result. But please remember all the people with their nose on the grindstone doing real work in the Valley and elsewhere. They are the majority, and they are the tech scene. Lyon's Silicon Cesspool isn't the tech scene, it's the blogosphere, which has always been a piece of shit. Disregard it, and remember, "Friends don't let friends read TechCrunch."
cbs 15y ago
Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet? To some extent, yeah, it is. I don't just mean in tech, thats the nature of the world. Without some cognitive dissidence and rationalization, we'd all be neurotic messes. Or psychopaths.

fossuser 15y ago

Every industry has people within it that are unethical or try to game the system for their own benefit at the expense of others. If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad.

cbs 15y ago
If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad. Every industry makes this rationalization.
- fossuser 15y ago
  No doubt, it's up to us to decide where the balance actually lies.

mvzink 15y ago

No, the world isn't seriously this disgusting. What you are looking at isn't even Silicon Valley. It's a bunch of fucking bloggers jerking around. Yeah, there are a lot of people who (for some reason) give a fuck. Some of these bloggers even have significant influence as a result. But please remember all the people with their nose on the grindstone doing real work in the Valley and elsewhere. They are the majority, and they are the tech scene. Lyon's Silicon Cesspool isn't the tech scene, it's the blogosphere, which has always been a piece of shit. Disregard it, and remember, "Friends don't let friends read TechCrunch."

cbs 15y ago

Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet? To some extent, yeah, it is. I don't just mean in tech, thats the nature of the world. Without some cognitive dissidence and rationalization, we'd all be neurotic messes. Or psychopaths.