> It’s the same as it’s always been, and the same at most of the big tech companies: Everyone believes they are changing the world for the better while extracting value through some kind of exploitation.

I'm curious what your experience is with this? I've worked at Google and AWS and I don't think I've met a single person who thought they were "changing the world".

The closest it ever got to that was when I once remarked to my lead that I wish I felt like the work I do mattered to which he replied something along the lines of, "We play but a small part in the grand movement that is the progress of technology, but don't forget we do play a part."

Pretty much everyone I know just does their job because they want to retire or support their families. This is also the same for almost every employee I've seen in other sized companies.

> How much you get paid is the key indicator of how much you are worth as a human being. That’s the game we play.

Some people may think this way but it's a choice to surround yourself with those kinds of people.

Yeah, it's all a drop in the bucket. Fifty years down the road, nobody will care about Facebook's transgressions of today.

> How much you get paid is the key indicator of how much you are worth as a human being. That’s the game we play.

You can look at an ape in the jungle as getting the most food. Is that the worth of that ape? To the apes, maybe so. To us, it's just an ape.

> while extracting value through some kind of exploitation.

In your view, are there ways of "extracting value" that are not "some kind of exploitation". Is "changing the world for the better" incompatible with "extracting value" somehow?