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What happened to changing the world?
- waltersPool 12y agoI work for a company who "move fast and break things", and strangely customers don't like it when we break things they rely on. This is about professionalism now, and professionals get what is due. A few snacks is nothing compared to what founders or VC get. We are the people who bring your plans to fruition, hook us up with a couple snickers or even artisanal coffee, the expense is worth it.
- malandrew 12y agoThis article suffers from presentism. The people who set out to change the world are still in the Bay Area, probably in the same rate per capita as the past. What has changed is that tech has become more accessible and therefor more pop. Basically, the number of software engineers per capita has grown dramatically, but that most of the growth is happening in the type of companies the author laments. 20-30 years ago these newcomers would not have been founding frivolous tech companies because they would probably be in some other line of work instead of in tech founding any company at all.