Comment by _wire_
16 hours ago
Oh yes. It's dog eat dog but among very lazy privileged dogs.
Don't confuse business with a humane enterprise. It operates according to a vague informal internal calculus, has little loyalty to staff or communities and will happily eat skilled, conscientious contributors. The utopian stuff about being intelligent and progressive is hyperbole; a side effect of a privileged class of the labor sector for 50 years for the simple reason of growth. Morals and ethics are after-thoughts. Communitas is to the FAANG nothing more than growth. As smart as this class thinks it is, it will wither and die when the corp welfare dries up.
Wtf are you talking about “priveleged”?
Many people worked day and night to become a well paid engineer. And some rich founders of companies still do, coming from nothing.
I’ve seen way more people struggling with mental health issues largely from overwork and stress than overly privileged. I think I’ve once or twice worked with an engineer that was kinda lazy but that’s out of hundreds of people I’ve worked with closely over the years. The only people who gain from calling engineers lazy and privileged are executives. All it does is widen the stick used to flog you.
> The only people who gain from calling engineers lazy and privileged are executives
also commies and alternatively-minded people
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