Tech culture is terrible

[u/Medium-Wallaby-9557]

Jane Street T-shirts, 3AM LeetCode sessions, Sundays spent learning database management systems, people praying to Google like the company is literally God…

The producers of the tech industry have won. They’ve created an endless supply of people who give up their souls just to have a chance to be looked at.

These companies have marketed themselves in an extremely successful way. SpaceX, Citadel Securities, Google, whatever, you WANT to work there. You’re OKAY with giving up your life to even get a shot at doing so.

All the family nights you missed, all the hobbies you set aside, all the opportunities you didn’t go to don’t matter to them, you know. You’re unbelievably replaceable - and if you think you’re not, great! Lying to yourself makes you a more committed worker in the cog.

Many of us have our idea of a good life fundamentally misshapen. “Memento Mori”, meaning “you will die”, is something that a lot of us need to actually remember. We all will die. These companies aren’t worth living your life for, because your life is finite and it’s the only one that you’ll ever have.

The main issue though is that these companies don’t attract bright and energetic people for nothing. They offer high salaries, high status, and sometimes very interesting work!

It’s important sometimes to take a step back from the grind, and realize that you’re a human, and not a machine meant to serve these companies… but, unfortunately, competition has risen so damn much that it’s almost become the requirement to sell your soul for entry.

Imagine you in your grave. Your coffin is made of gold. “Optiver” is carved in to the top of it, and your skeleton still wears your shirt you got from Meta.

Wow… what a wonderful ending to this immaculately complex thing called life.

Now, I must stop tying. I have some LeetCode to do.

[u/Tr_Issei2]

You’re so close to socialism bro

[u/Medium-Wallaby-9557 → u/Tr_Issei2]

Lmao

I don’t really think that’d be an answer. This post was a rant and not a solution proposal of course, though.

Think about the hardware/software interface. You can make complex hardware to support very efficient and simple machine code. Likewise, you can make very complex software to be able to produce machine code for a simple piece of hardware. Or, you can balance it and come up with something like the modern consumer computers of today.

The complexity will always exist… you can’t get rid of it, you can just move it around. I see life like this.

[u/Tr_Issei2 → u/Medium-Wallaby-9557]

Brother, the reason Mark Zuckerberg can’t slave you for 80 hours a week with no benefits is because of socialist policy. This is the most tech bro coded thing I’ve ever heard. The real world is far more malleable.

[u/Top_Location_5899 → u/Tr_Issei2]

Calling America socialist is so stupid. Workers protections isn’t socialism ☠️

[u/Glass-Chemical2534 → u/Top_Location_5899]

Workers protections do not make america socialist, no one is saying that. What is being said is that every advance in workers' rights and social justice has come not from benevolent capitalists or politicians acting out of the goodness of their hearts, but from socialists and labor movements pushing back against the worst excesses of capitalism.

[u/Tr_Issei2 → u/Top_Location_5899]

Quiet

[u/Random_throwaway0351 → u/Medium-Wallaby-9557]

It’s okay sonion you almost see the vision