Comment by lioeters

> The industry is exhausting to be in. It takes bright eyed talented and creative individuals and grinds them to dust.

Sadly, I think this is true of every industry - with a few rare exceptions, perhaps. Workers are burnt out everywhere, and companies treat them as grist for the mill. It's just how industrial society is organized, it seems.

Elsewhere in the thread, someone mentioned how the school system "completely removed that joy" (in this case of mathematics). That sounds like the same situation, it's not just tech workers, it's teachers and students too.

There definitely are some pockets of hope, niches where creative juices are flowing, where people are enjoying their work. It's so rare to see, but I believe that's actually how things are supposed to be - I mean, the ideal state of society.

The historical period we're in currently is very primitive in some aspects, brutal and ignorant, despite all the advanced science and technology. The hope I see is to nurture and cultivate our "bright eyed talented and creative individuals", so that some of them may survive the grinding gears of Mordor.