It's run by MBAs and sociopaths who want to make a quick buck and have no interest in or respect for building anything durable, and executed by yes-men (and some women) who don't have a single neuron to question what they're doing.
Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
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Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#152On the list of extremely annoying things you can put on a webpage, a cat constantly running after my cursor is definitely a new one for me.
Clearly you were not on the web in the 90s. But agree it's very annoying.
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think when you couple extreme wealth inequality with extreme mis-allocation of capital (aka societal energy) with no buy in from the population, you (the Stanford educated elite - not you specifically) run the risk of getting your fucking head chopped off.
Sure, of course. I'm trying to draw a distinction between disagreement and hate. I'm not trying to eliminate either one.
When we are on the same level, we can disagree on things.
When you have concentrated power and make a living out of fucking around with everybody else, you seed hatred.
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#154Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#155Because its dominated more by businessmen than engineers c.f. early days of IT
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#156Name an industry anyone likes, aside from the money they might be making off it. They're all now hated for the same reasons, caused by the same, scarily small, group of people.
I'd say farming. Not agriculture in general, Monsanto is one of the most hated companies, so is John Deere, and farmers hate them too, but the ones working on the field, preferably crops over livestock. I think that farmers are somehow immune despite having their fair share of evil because we all understand that without them, we would all die.
I'm a New Zealander. Farmers here are disliked by a large percentage of the population
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube empowers millions of creators around the world. It's more about the fact that at a sufficiently large scale any platform faces the same issues. Some creators are terrible without breaking the rules, people argue, etc.
I think that just highlights how “empowerment” through tech is biased towards producers, which makes sense because that aligns with the usual business propositions. For consumers, YT is not empowering. It fulfills a need, well enough to tie them to the platform. But it is obviously not set up to hand them any more power than to serve that goal. You want to shield yourself from wasting time here? Sorry, not sorry, our…
YT can be/was empowering for the viewer. Product choices have made it far more of a pointless timesuck and consumer hostile but it still remains the place where I can find a video of a guy taking the front off the same model dishwasher that I have to fix the latch in the soap dispenser while he points out how to do it without permanently destroying the clips that hold it together.
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#158I can't actually think of a single piece of tech made in the past ten years that has improved my life, at least not without large downsides. There's some embedded stuff, like lane assist or adaptive cruise control in my car, that I like, but the package as a whole... not really much of an improvement. It's not really bad as such that the tech industry want to attempt to make a smart home, or add software to a product…
>I can't actually think of a single piece of tech made in the past ten years that has improved my life This is going to be controversial, but I feel that ChatGPT has improved my life. Also e-bikes, 3D printers, and wireless earbuds really took off in the last ten years. Some of these were invented more than 10 years ago but saw significant improvements that brought them into the mainstream.
Being able to use ChatGPT is useful, but it is significantly offset by how many business interactions are now mediated solely by chatgpt, and I'm not sure on balance my life has been improved.
Re: Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked in car sales. Most of my coworkers drove drunk once a week or more. So basically I've seen 10+ people drive drunk 100+ times, and no doubt they do it more outside my view. No one ever had an accident.
Right, the drunk drivers never had an accident, until that night they kill some other family of 4.
For sure drunk driving increases your odds of an accident. But people make it sound 3-4 beers and you're bound to have an accident. We should be more honest about it.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, the drunk drivers never had an accident, until that night they kill some other family of 4.
For sure drunk driving increases your odds of an accident. But people make it sound 3-4 beers and you're bound to have an accident. We should be more honest about it.
Most people would not describe the observable behavior of someone just over the legal limit as drunk.