samir, an unknown quantityHow many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?
Give me your best guess.
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0–25%
25–50%
50–75%
75–100%
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Hisham@samir the number skews way downwards once one realizes that the vast majority of programmers are not only not in Silicon Valley, but really not in tech companies.
So many programmers all around the world working in local systems to help drive local businesses of all sizes and local governments.
The "tech industry" that is overrepresented in English-speaking social media is only a part of what programming as a global activity really is, even if they hold great power over that whole.
Neil Kandalgaonkar@hisham_hm @samir Yeah, that’s what I thought, but also remember that many of the “regular” jobs are choked with bureaucracy and corporate fiefdoms, and there are a fair number of industries which are fundamentally unethical.
And startuppy faangy jobs can be dystopian too, but there are considerable concessions to workers and the mission has to be at least nominally inspiring to attract talent
I’m honestly not sure what’s worse