3 ms·
Increasingly more prominent is this new genre of activist hacker who thinks all big tech guys are bad parasites and if only they didn’t exist and we would have
by simianwords 4mo ago
Increasingly more prominent is this new genre of activist hacker who thinks all big tech guys are bad parasites and if only they didn’t exist and we would have world peace and prosperity. That’s about the biggest virtue they know to signal.
The took the antithesis of the “great man” theory and ended up believing in a nonsensical version of it - every great thing in the world was done by normal people working 9-5. This is a kind of crude Labour Theory Of Value.
So you see these kind of comments signalling hatred in an attempt to show solidarity. But ultimately it is simply a signalling thing, a way to LARP as an activist because what else might one do as a simple rank and file employee. One wants to have a greater purpose to life and being an activist is a path for it.
- rightbyte 4mo agoI think you might have constructed a straw man. Not working FTE to ruin society is not "activism" and many big tech companies are more or less profiteering of good will and trust and spitting out money and misery.