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I used to be very enthusiastic about the tech industry and the Silicon Valley culture before getting into it, but having worked in tech for a while I feel very
by agnosticmantis 3y ago
I used to be very enthusiastic about the tech industry and the Silicon Valley culture before getting into it, but having worked in tech for a while I feel very demoralized and disillusioned with all the blatant lies and hypocrisy that seems central to business.
I wouldn’t mind ruthless anti-competitive approaches to business as much, but the hypocrisy is really demoralizing.
- colpabar 3y agoFor me it was when I figured out what the “gig economy” was - a way to make money off peoples labor without all the annoyances that come with having employees.
- eastbound 3y agoAt 5 you stop believing in Santa Claus, At 25 you stop believing in love, At 40 you stop believing in corporations’ sincerity?
- polishdude20 3y agoTry 29
- noir_lord 3y agoWas about 15 for me but I read cyberpunk in the 90’s which shaped my view of powerful private entities.
- greenie_beans 3y agowas about to say...40? 29?
- myaccountonhn 3y agoI also got quite disillusioned a few times and I probably will again. What helped me regain a bit of hope again was looking at what the open source community is up to (stuff like sourcehub instead of Github for example). I get joy from moving away from big monopolistic orgs to smaller projects, it feels quite liberating. Recently I also moved away from vscode back to vim and that has been fun to even if vim requires a bit more work. There is something freeing about using a different paradigm, one that isn’t so obsessed about reach and usability but instead on expressability and growth. It reminds me of the internet I used to love rather than the one I grew to hate. Maybe that will help you a bit as well?