A great read. At first, I feared the author was leaning a little too heavily into op-ed writing startup-founding techbros trying to start the next phase of their career without actually changing...
A great read. At first, I feared the author was leaning a little too heavily into op-ed writing startup-founding techbros trying to start the next phase of their career without actually changing their values whatsoever. But they bring it back ti basics: if you want to stop contributing to toxic monopolistic manipulative tech companies, you can always walk away and do something else. BUT if you worked at Google or Facebook or Microsoft or any of many unethical tech companies over the past decade, you need to be able to prove that you've changed your perspective. Because most of the people working in that space are deeply unethical and greedy, so most of society should be wary of them.
As someone who started working in tech after school to pay off my student loans, I understand that for some people, it's just a job, and at some point if you have the right skillset it is very difficult to walk away from 500k+ senior positions at big tech companies. But the temptation and difficulty of that situation is exactly why we need to be skeptical of people who give into the greed and temptation, and why we should probably prefer people who resisted it in the first place!
The prodigal son story analogy doesn't really work for me here though, sorry. I honestly always thought it was a weird story back when I was forced to go to church as a kid. It's very aligned with the forgiveness angle of the New Testament, I suppose, but feels at odds with the justice angle of the Old Testament. I wonder if anyone here can change my mind aboit it, we have a few religious scholars here iirc.
A great read. At first, I feared the author was leaning a little too heavily into op-ed writing startup-founding techbros trying to start the next phase of their career without actually changing their values whatsoever. But they bring it back ti basics: if you want to stop contributing to toxic monopolistic manipulative tech companies, you can always walk away and do something else. BUT if you worked at Google or Facebook or Microsoft or any of many unethical tech companies over the past decade, you need to be able to prove that you've changed your perspective. Because most of the people working in that space are deeply unethical and greedy, so most of society should be wary of them.
As someone who started working in tech after school to pay off my student loans, I understand that for some people, it's just a job, and at some point if you have the right skillset it is very difficult to walk away from 500k+ senior positions at big tech companies. But the temptation and difficulty of that situation is exactly why we need to be skeptical of people who give into the greed and temptation, and why we should probably prefer people who resisted it in the first place!
The prodigal son story analogy doesn't really work for me here though, sorry. I honestly always thought it was a weird story back when I was forced to go to church as a kid. It's very aligned with the forgiveness angle of the New Testament, I suppose, but feels at odds with the justice angle of the Old Testament. I wonder if anyone here can change my mind aboit it, we have a few religious scholars here iirc.