Comment by wolvoleo
3 months ago
Technologists don't drive decisions though. The shareholders do.
Edit: I mean technically shareholders don't decide any operational choices but their shallow interests are what everything is decided around.
3 months ago
Technologists don't drive decisions though. The shareholders do.
Edit: I mean technically shareholders don't decide any operational choices but their shallow interests are what everything is decided around.
> Technologists don't drive decisions though. The shareholders do.
Yes, but technologists get sniped into identifying and defending them. They're the mouth pieces and the hands. Shareholders by themselves out to add my uniqueness to their assets would just be helpless randos who can't even make eye contact. Think of what "hiding behind screens" does to people, multiply that by infinite and you get shareholders hiding behind technologists.
Maybe that's truer in other industries, but the history of Silicon Valley is at great odds with such a claim.
Silicon Valley was originally funded by the military industrial complex.
Today it’s dominated by the military industrial complex and advertisers like Google and Meta.
The hippies were never in charge, only for a brief period were they well compensated and allowed to make noise(1990s).
But tech people HAVE BUILT IT ALL!
None of this could exist without the cooperation of technical people. We (as a group) are guilty of building this, and I don't see any genuine reflection or self-awareness or accountability at all from tech people for this.