Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
by munificent on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:47PM
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"I have an apartment and a bank account right now."
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"I live in a tent encampment."
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"I live in a shantytown in a third-world country."
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"I am on death row."
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"I am on death row for a crime I didn't commit."
vs...
It's important to try to maintain perspective about our own good fortunes. But it's also human nature to feel our own pain as relative to our previous experience. Someone's always got it worse than you but that doesn't mean it's fair to expect everyone else to wander around farting rainbows with grins plastered to their faces.
All of the Googlers I know are well aware of the many ways in which we're fortunate and privileged. But we're also, you know, human, and occasionally whining about stuff is just part of the human experience.
vs
"I live in a tent encampment."
vs
"I live in a shantytown in a third-world country."
vs
"I am on death row."
vs
"I am on death row for a crime I didn't commit."
vs...
It's important to try to maintain perspective about our own good fortunes. But it's also human nature to feel our own pain as relative to our previous experience. Someone's always got it worse than you but that doesn't mean it's fair to expect everyone else to wander around farting rainbows with grins plastered to their faces.
All of the Googlers I know are well aware of the many ways in which we're fortunate and privileged. But we're also, you know, human, and occasionally whining about stuff is just part of the human experience.