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You're right, 'existential dread' was a lazy handwave on my part, I don't know how to expand un-briefly :/ "The stuff that drives people away from BigCo", which
by refulgentis 2y ago
You're right, 'existential dread' was a lazy handwave on my part, I don't know how to expand un-briefly :/ "The stuff that drives people away from BigCo", which is a tautology, so perhaps not useful.
I'll try to reply with more specifics to the sibling
- fragmede 2y agoSometimes the quick short quip has more truth to it than the long verbose answer. It's a different dread working for a startup, but really believing that you're helping its mission to save the world, or at least, not making it worse is it's own form of payment. Some people work at a Fang only do after convincing themselves that to do so would be wrong, but the pay is just so good, and so they hate themselves for working there. They haven't drunk the Kool aid and have bought into a narrative that the company they're working for is eeeeevil. Other people just buy that BMW and provide a better life for their kids than they had, and the thought doesn't even register.