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Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:12PM (#31843550)
It is not naivety to have a passion (expressed as their work) and to be taken advantage of by management, billionaires, whomever. It's simply exploitation of someone's belief system by someone lacking some combination of morals, ethics, and empathy.

Let's not blame good people for the contemptible actions of those exploiting them. We want to encourage more good people who channel their passion into their work (and hopefully that results in progress), and put the contemptible people into metaphorical boxes via laws and regulations to protect others from the harm they cause.

If shitty people are still getting wildly wealthy and we keep churning out burned out cynical people in the process, that’s not progress nor sustainable.

Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by Dudeman112 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:38AM (#31847228)
>It is not naivety to have a passion (expressed as their work) and to be taken advantage of

It is. It totally is naivety.

I find it incredibly odd that if someone goes to, say, a Brazilian slum showing off their expensive stuff people are fine with labeling them naive when (not if) they get robbed

Some people have been so sheltered from reality that they'd put their hands in the mouth of a lion and be surprised when the lion bites it off. At some point it is indeed naivety. And on this specific case it's not even like said billionaires are trying hard to fake decency

Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by rowanG077 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:07AM (#31848534)
I agree with you. But this is just not the sentiment of current society. It's called "victim blaming".
Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by Schroedingersat on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:46PM (#31843807)
If you are tolerating exploitation by wealthy sociopaths when there is enough information available to know what they're doing and they have the resources to live a tolerable life without participating are either complicit or willfully naive and credulous.

Either way they share the blame.

Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by quantified on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:20PM (#31844460)
Can you edit that to be coherent? "You", "they", and the target of "are either..." seem out of sync.
Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by tpoacher on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:21AM (#31846392)
"It's their fault for having feelings and empathy that makes them weak, it is my duty as an apex predator to exploit them": every narcissist ever.

Sometimes a victim is just a victim.