> I cringe at past-Jacob’s naiveté. It’s been incredibly demoralizing to discover what the tech industry actually did was to invent surveillance capitalism, create exploitative “gig economy” business models,create a new generation of robber barons, enable the rise of global fascism, facilitate genoicde, and I could go on but Christ I’m exhausted.

At least he acknowledges this. A lot of people getting their 6-7 figure salaries deny any wrongdoing. A good number of them post on this forum.