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Yes, but taking your self-reflection euphemism literally, and why it wouldn't be enough, here's a rough sketch of several categories of us workers, in an indust
by neilv 1y ago
Yes, but taking your self-reflection euphemism literally, and why it wouldn't be enough, here's a rough sketch of several categories of us workers, in an industry that became the new "greed is good" mecca, maybe 25 years ago:
* Reasonably well-intentioned, but we're not particularly bright, and not much for introspection. We never thought about where this money came from, and accepted executive chatter about creating value or whatever, but it was boring to us.
* We see a survival threat, and ourselves as doing things we're not proud of, and don't like to think about it. (It's much easier for an observer to be sympathetic with this today, than for most of the last 25-30 very comfortable years in tech, when most of us were chasing the jobs that were much more than comfortable, at companies that were in the news for being sketchy. We even twisted the entire field's way of interviewing for all jobs, to match the extensive practicing that everyone was doing for the interview rituals of the strictly best-paying, well-more-than-comfortable jobs.)
* Like the above, but we're not actually feeling a threat, just rationalizing greed.
* We're greedy sociopaths, who don't even care to rationalize, except to manipulate others.
* We're not a sociopath, but we've been fed a self-serving aggressive libertarian philosophy/religion, and ate it up. Like the first category in this list, we're not particularly bright or introspective, but we're much less likeable.
* We question the field-wide festival of sociopathic greed, and we've been implicitly assembling a list of things we apparently won't do, companies we apparently won't work with, etc. And it's because of reasoned values, not just appearances or fashion.