Comment by phil21
21 days ago
From a casual observer who (used to) mostly lurk, it absolutely does.
Maybe the tide has been turning the past few years but it was endemic from my point of view a decade ago when I first started reading HN.
Folks who didn’t chase career maximization were typically treated like naive children at best. Working for a third of the wages in some flyover state at a boring company vs some adtech company with an options package was panned on the regular.
It was always part of the zeitgeist you switch jobs early and often to maximize your career progression vs. chill with the same company for most of your life.
I'm not sure it was so much of an ethical statement as you should be switching jobs every couple years to maximize your paycheck.
Of course, now, it's more about being happy to have a well-paying job as opposed to working a "full-time" job with two or three paychecks from different companies.