Everyone who visits this forum would do well to remember the narrative of tech being “the last meritocracy” is at the very least completely dead now, if it was

Everyone who visits this forum would do well to remember the narrative of tech being “the last meritocracy” is at the very least completely dead now, if it was ever true to begin with. Founders have been so thoroughly mythologized that everyone is becoming blind to the reality of the industry as a whole, and that is a few large corporations are increasingly holding all the keys. Yet you have the people most affected by this decrying others who push against this in society, the workplace or in politics as if it’s an affront to do so. We are losing our innovation spirit as we allow such rot to set in. We should have known better, we did nothing to prove we did