monetizing empathy

You Cave Johnsons...!

Yeah, by 2014 that mentality was being phased out, they just couldn't do it overnight.

Beware the AI slop Pipeline

I work with these fucking yuppies every day and I hate them so fucking much.

I'm that, but in reverse, a bro tech

This is why I always tell employers up front to never put me in, nor consider me for, management tracks. “I like to work in the trenches.” I have no desire to be among these corporate people.

I feel like all the people who were into tech to improve people's lives did that and got bought out by people who then went on to try and make money off of it.

I am still stuck in “2014”, which is where I was back in 1995.

But then again, I never became obscenely wealthy by grossly parasitizing off of the labour of other people, so I never had the chance to devolve and become corrupted by capitalism.

This is just a meme, but it does touch on something important. There's a journalist by the name of Douglas Rushkoff. He put out a book last year titled, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaire Elite, and he was invited by a group of 5 anonymous tech oligarchs out to the desert to talk about surviving what they call "The Event", or when the consequences of their actions finally catch up to them.

He also says at the core of their desire to escape it is rooted in something he calls "The Mindset", which is belief that with enough money and technology, wealthy men can live as gods, and transcend the calamities and tribulations that befall us mere mortals.

"The Mindset" is rooted in empirical science, that human beings are nothing more than the sum total of their chemical components, and that's it, and only the "truly superior" (Billionaire Tech Broligarchs) understand that.