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Yeah, for me, this review points to a bigger picture issue. Why is the tech / startup scene so easily lured in by establishment values? Of course there are exc
by whiddershins 13y ago
Yeah, for me, this review points to a bigger picture issue. Why is the tech / startup scene so easily lured in by establishment values?
Of course there are exceptions, Fog Creek's articles about their compensation policy comes to mind, but very little of the egalitarian ethos that made hacking so cool survives in the way people talk and write about working in tech.
Corporate long-hours and ladder climbing ambition? Where every dating site [or other product] presumes fixed gender, sexual preferences, and monogamous behavior. Happily pouring your earnings in to high rents and overpriced 401ks, quibbling over the .02% equity versus the extra $5k a year at the next job while recreating the hierarchy and wage slavery which characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. To the point where even the feminism seems regressive. And the "art" is airbrushed illustrations and all the music is power pop.
Did I wander too far? Well it is one lens to view it through.
- jeremy6d 13y agoThank you for saying all of this.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoAs below, thanks for saying all this. I often wonder what the bloody hell happened to the hacker-ethic and hacker-aesthetic that had drawn me towards tech in the first place. It's getting very close to flipping my switch for, "Burn it all down and start over."
- qu4z-2 13y agoI think the hacker ethic alive and well, and living outside the startup scene/Hacker News.