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I feel like I'm looking in a mirror. Everything you wrote is me 100%.

• financltravsty 2y ago
  There was a Microsoft employee a while ago that had a psychotic break and stabbed some of his employees at the Redmond campus; I know another one from Intel that got sick of it all and went to start a brewing company in Columbia with a wife 40 years his junior. I don't think about this a lot, but perhaps I should.
  • moritzwarhier 2y ago
    Is this the MS employee you are talking about? https://www.geekwire.com/2023/suspect-in-alleged-stabbing-of-fellow-microsoft-employee-pleads-not-guilty-to-attempted-murder/ https://www.geekwire.com/2023/suspect-in-alleged-stabbing-of... I am sympathetic to the pains discussed here, but that sounds like a psychotic and deeply disturbed individual whose traits were not attributable to programming or tech in general. Might as well have been an industrial engineer or lorry driver. "Entfremdung" in work is a real thing, but mentioning this kind of case and thinking up associations is not doing this idea any justice.
    • financltravsty 2y ago
      Ah, Joey! That's the one. Yes, I think a big factor was his early life and then further drug "adventures" (was put on adderall at 5 y.o. -- by his admission -- become dependent on it and then fell into meth and the rest). If you read some of his journals I think this, and a different sort of familial alienation (which led to another sort of social alienation) led to this chain of events. An alienation nonetheless, but yes not exactly job-caused (though it cannot be ruled out as a factor).
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