I could have done a better job elaborating in my original post, I was too glib. To me it's less about this particular example (it's small potatoes overall) and more about the double standard for the tech industry. Imagine if university science departments switched to 1940s curriculum just for fun. Imagine if Ford started producing Model T's again just for fun. Tech is the only industry where people goof off, get paid (in dollars or praise) and yet there are still complaints about how bad it is to work in technology.

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To add on to this, I think what frustrates me most is the lack of collective self-reflection or appreciation of privilege in the tech industry. I'm not trying to deny the existence of real problems in the tech industry but every time I (as a non-tech industry worker) hear my friends or see some article about how underpaid tech workers are (at 3 to 4 times my salary) I have to clench my bowels and try not to have an aneurysm. I would love to see articles regularly hit the top of Hacker News titled "Look at how good we have it" (including some recognition about how bad the economy is for everyone else) but I don't think I've ever seen that.