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> The question is what about the 80% of the people who are not ninja/wizard/superhero-like? They just do their work and go home? > They don't care much about w

> The question is what about the 80% of the people who are not ninja/wizard/superhero-like? They just do their work and go home? > They don't care much about work, they want to get paid as much as possible, work the fewest hours and fuck off. I find that false dichotomy offensive. The vast majority of people are not $BUZZWORDs who just want to do their work and go home, but who do care about their job and doing the best they can. This idea that you have to blow off your job and do the least possible to skirt by is toxic bullshit.

alexashka 12y ago
You're right, there's a wide spectrum. It was an oversimplification for the sake of brevity. I consider myself part of the 80%, so it is not like I am putting anybody down. There's parts of the 80% who care, but not care so much that they are at google. I am one of those people, I do good work, I just don't devote my life to programming. Then there's the other parts of the 80% who can't even program and bullshit on their resumes. What the 80% have in common is given the choice, they'd MOSTLY take fewer hours and bigger paycheques. The 20% would likely not take fewer hours but would still take the bigger paycheques. That's the difference as far as I can tell - some people devote their life to work, others see it as a big part of life, but not all-encompassing.