Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

coyotetracks.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 94 posts

Re: I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

#2

Post by slowin »

I absolutely feel this. I quit my job at Microsoft because they were too complicit with Israel's crimes against humanity (posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925777). That left me looking for a job and I have one now, with a startup I like a lot and hasn't done anything unethical to the best of my knowledge. The investors have though. Most of the VC community is straight up fascist/supremacist/genocidal... our industry is sick and while no doubt there was always this underpinning (I just didn't see it or realize my own complicity), it feels like it's ratcheted up a lot in the last 5 or so years.

Re: I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

#5

Post by sarabande »

Seems like an unnecessarily broad brush to paint with, as if "tech" were a monolith. Just don't work for the companies that cross your self-stated lines in the sand:

> But my personal lines definitely extend to don’t give money to people who enable fascism and don’t create value for them, either.

Re: I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

#7

Post by slowin »

sarabande wrote: post #5

Seems like an unnecessarily broad brush to paint with, as if "tech" were a monolith. Just don't work for the companies that cross your self-stated lines in the sand: > But my personal lines definitely extend to don’t give money to people who enable fascism and don’t create value for them, either.

I think there's a systemic problem with the investors though. It's a smallish pool of very much monocultured venture capitalists that's very easy to get blacklisted from if you don't adhere to their ideology. It's not as simple as just finding a job somewhere else, when the financing is controlled by a small group of people who are extremely vindictive.

Re: I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

#9

Post by majorchord »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #4

I grew up believing that capitalism somehow separates business from government, with each operating independently. Same with separation of church and state. Not sure what to think of things now.

I think the problem, if we're talking about the US at least, is that the conservatives running things believe a government should be small... which inevitably leads to corporations virtually running parts of the government, unless you come up with a way to explicitly prevent that. But the people in power who want to remain in power would never go along with that.

Re: I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

#10

Post by q3aGf »

I still don't understand how these people think they can achieve ultra right wing and unemployment through AI at the same time. Even Hitler didn't manage.

But the tech people have been programmed for obedience and followed their industry leaders through wokeness and now protofascism without thinking.

Tech people are weak and just act as repeaters, so I guess the leaders know what they are doing and the useful idiots will carry it out, even if they live under a bridge in 5 years.

Post reply on HN