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I think hate is the perfect word.

nyeah 3mo ago
Can I ask for more info? Is it the perfect word for how some people feel about the tech industry? The perfect word to describe disagreement?
- therobots927 3mo ago
  I think when you couple extreme wealth inequality with extreme mis-allocation of capital (aka societal energy) with no buy in from the population, you (the Stanford educated elite - not you specifically) run the risk of getting your fucking head chopped off.
  - nyeah 3mo ago
    Sure, of course. I'm trying to draw a distinction between disagreement and hate. I'm not trying to eliminate either one.
    - grg0 3mo ago
      When we are on the same level, we can disagree on things. When you have concentrated power and make a living out of fucking around with everybody else, you seed hatred.
    - red-iron-pine 3mo ago
      i can disagree with my friend's opinion about if a cake is tasty. i can disagree with my neighbor's opinion that his wife is pretty or his kids are smart. i hate entrenched capital that is trying to obliterate my ability to work, and which will leave me to starve, and which is very, very blunt about how little they care about us.
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    - pixl97 3mo ago
      To really understand where this can go you need to look at the robber barons of the 1800's, the Pinkertons, and the people that got into literal wars with them. That is the express world people like Bezos want to bring back with company towns. So, ya, hate would be a proper word.
m463 3mo ago
I agree. For a normal person, when your day is pop-ups, cookie dialogs, dark patterns, auto-opt-in, <100-pages-of-legalese> + "Accept", subscriptions, smartphone-only ordering and customer service and endless-monetization... ...why use weaker words? of course, if you're working or starting a tech company, you cannot use strong words. You might alienate your many funding sources.
- therobots927 3mo ago
  You’re better off bootstrapping a startup anyway. Once you take VC money you might as well work in big tech. You’ll still be beholden to morons. I have no interest in making more friends in Silicon Valley than I already have.

nyeah 3mo ago

Can I ask for more info? Is it the perfect word for how some people feel about the tech industry? The perfect word to describe disagreement?

therobots927 3mo ago
I think when you couple extreme wealth inequality with extreme mis-allocation of capital (aka societal energy) with no buy in from the population, you (the Stanford educated elite - not you specifically) run the risk of getting your fucking head chopped off.
- nyeah 3mo ago
  Sure, of course. I'm trying to draw a distinction between disagreement and hate. I'm not trying to eliminate either one.
  - grg0 3mo ago
    When we are on the same level, we can disagree on things. When you have concentrated power and make a living out of fucking around with everybody else, you seed hatred.
  - red-iron-pine 3mo ago
    i can disagree with my friend's opinion about if a cake is tasty. i can disagree with my neighbor's opinion that his wife is pretty or his kids are smart. i hate entrenched capital that is trying to obliterate my ability to work, and which will leave me to starve, and which is very, very blunt about how little they care about us.
    - deleted 3mo ago
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  - pixl97 3mo ago
    To really understand where this can go you need to look at the robber barons of the 1800's, the Pinkertons, and the people that got into literal wars with them. That is the express world people like Bezos want to bring back with company towns. So, ya, hate would be a proper word.

m463 3mo ago

I agree. For a normal person, when your day is pop-ups, cookie dialogs, dark patterns, auto-opt-in, <100-pages-of-legalese> + "Accept", subscriptions, smartphone-only ordering and customer service and endless-monetization... ...why use weaker words? of course, if you're working or starting a tech company, you cannot use strong words. You might alienate your many funding sources.

therobots927 3mo ago
You’re better off bootstrapping a startup anyway. Once you take VC money you might as well work in big tech. You’ll still be beholden to morons. I have no interest in making more friends in Silicon Valley than I already have.