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Yeah. Not just the sociopaths (which I think are a small minority), but I think the societal awareness and conventions window has shifted profoundly in tech, a
by neilv 2y ago
Yeah. Not just the sociopaths (which I think are a small minority), but I think the societal awareness and conventions window has shifted profoundly in tech, and we're very echo-chamber.
Tech industry today is pretty much 1980s greed-is-good Wall Street screwing over everyone they can, and the main difference is that today we don't realize we're behaving like the stereotypical coked-up bad guys.
We do tend to have some socially progressive ideas among tech workers, which is great. But not great is if we anchor our self-perceptions to that do-gooder side, and then give ourselves a blank check for society-destroying greed and obliviousness in other regards. (Can we please respect people's pronouns and also not screw over their economics, privacy, thinking, government, and general wellbeing?)
- tresdju 2y ago> we don't realize we're behaving like the stereotypical coked-up bad guys. I recently came to realization that the 80s were able to be fueled by cocaine because we lacked the tools to identify a coked out maniac. People must have just seen these people as "engaged, enthusiastic, and passionate". Now, we have the tools to see the current snake oil salesmen (this is what? our nth cycle? VR, GigEconomy, Blockchain, AR, ...) but people are still defending them. It's difficult to watch again and again.