Human Brain EnthusiastWhat’s in it for people who work for the big tech companies who enable one morally bankrupt thing after another for decades on end just to make the billionaire owners richer?
Is that truly fulfilling work?
I get “job security” or whatever (which you don’t actually have by the way), but working for these companies for years?
Something is wrong with you.
Ziggy the Hamster ☎️ 4ZTH@thomasfuchs for me, it was that I was constantly kept in a fight/flight/freeze/fawn state and unable to actually have the spoons to get out
Incidentally this also explains why I was in an abusive relationship for most of the 17 years I was in a relationship with my ex
More compassion than you’re exhibiting would be appreciated… I don’t like that either thing happened to me
@ZiggyTheHamster There’s many smaller companies in tech that do not come with the baggage of big tech.
People don’t even try to leave (look for different jobs etc.) _despite knowing it’s bad what they’re supporting with their work_.
I have compassion and was in difficult situations myself, but many people, including specially in higher-up positions, just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
deech@thomasfuchs @ZiggyTheHamster It's not so cut and dry. IME small companies blindly take on the tech baggage of big companies but don't have the personnel so now that k8s cluster is your problem instead of a whole other team's. About social baggage and work life balance, I'm not sure.
@deech @ZiggyTheHamster I don’t think there’s many smaller companies who are working on toppling democracy, sticking people in concentration camps or are actively pursuing the algorithmic incineration of children half-way around the world
@thomasfuchs @ZiggyTheHamster Yep, 100% agree. The comment was more about the day-to-day frustrations but yes, you're right.