I think the only thing saving me at this point is that I am obsessed with mathematics, not with tech.

I have a lot of other hobbies that save me, but the math vs. tech mindset is very real to me in the workplace context. I am not saying all mathematicians are good, or good people, but it helps to have something more real to hold onto.

I think the same holds for hacker culture. If you are a hacker more than a "techy" (Edit: I think there should be a better word here.), sometimes that distinction is what saves you.

I'm much more of a hacker, but that's the problem for me, I'm not doing anything interesting. It's all the same things I've done a billion times before, again and again. I guess my problem is that nobody wants to promote a remote developer who lives in Greece to anything other than code monkey, so eh, these are my choices.

No one wants to promote a developer to anything in general. One mechanism to achieve that is to simply promote everyone, e.g everyone claims a senior title, claims fullstack, etc. That’s one way of keeping developers roughly where they are.

That's generally a transparent non-event, but I agree, I don't see many developers being promoted to much.