> Honestly, I can't wait for GPT and other productivity tools to wrech havock upon the tech labour market. Some people in tech really need to be taken down a notch or two.
That's an odd reason to want this.
That's an odd reason to want this.
While adtech, crypto and other bullshit gets massive funding because it can turn a profit.
The incentives to have a good society don't align with the incentives of financial capitalism.
I’m starting to see the term “tech bros” appear more and more in HN - before hand I more frequently saw it outside of this site.
Some people on HN I have seen really come down on those that use the term. I don’t.
Perhaps those of us in the industry ought to recognize that the term exists because of a growing resentment among people outside of the tech industry.
Your comment hints too as to why that is.
People start generalizing about groups like this when they've stopped caring about negative policy consequences which affect those groups. Politicians who blame wage stagnation on immigrants do not expect to have those immigrants who gain citizenship vote for them. Why do you think people might have stopped caring what happens to the group designated "tech bros"?
Still better to train lots of electricians and refrigerant techs and solar installers and all the other workers that the energy transition will need, of course.
Also have yet to Graeber's book ("Bullshit Jobs: A Theory").
Except for perhaps doctors (and even then residency is BS) all of those jobs are treated or paid like crap.
Doctors and nurses now spend more time entering data than talking to patients.
Teachers now spend more time entering grades into online systems and fielding messages from parents.
Not sure how tech is helping or hurting plumbers except for the standard GPS tracking that bosses use to follow them around.
Doctors and plumbers might make society work, but technology drives society forward.
My job is to optimize workflows which reduce cost, CO2 and make the world better and easier.
It's not my fault that society is unable to optimize everything for less work for everyone while everyone can have a good live.