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They explicitly built cryptocurrency as a way to hoard more wealth. It was the "engineers" not just the money people.
by mrhottakes 4mo ago
They explicitly built cryptocurrency as a way to hoard more wealth. It was the "engineers" not just the money people.
- ozgrakkurt 4mo agoI worked at blockchain companies for 4 years and this is not true. The ratio of degenerate engineers is maybe 30% but business people is 80%. People I have worked with were much better compared to other companies I worked in like aviation or consulting
- GlassOwAter 4mo agoSame here. I’ve met a lot of smart, passionate people in the space that are very respectable.
- Isamu 4mo agoI absolutely believe this, it attracts developers that can see the idealistic potential. It is worthwhile to do your part for an ideal future. The fact that you your vision is undermined by a determined group of profiteers doesn’t diminish the value of what you can accomplish toward an ideal future.
- dhosek 4mo agoI don’t think I’ve ever worked with anyone in engineering who I would consider degenerate aside from the occasional crypto supporter. Even 30% seems like a scary high percentage of degenerate engineers.
- mrhottakes 4mo agoAll it takes is for the engineer in charge to be degenerate and the others willing to go along with it, that's how you get a Meta, etc
- pcthrowaway 4mo ago> The ratio of degenerate engineers is maybe 30% but business people is 80% I worked for crypto companies for a while. The CEO of the latter company was a self-described fascist, and on one web-meeting our distributed engineering team was showing off their guns to one another. I was the only engineer who wasn't right-wing (and one of the only ones not based in the U.S.). Not sure which of our crypto companies was the anomaly, but I definitely got the sense from having gone to a convention or two that it was part and parcel with the whole industry.