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Re:Paul Buchheit on joining Google, how to become a great en... by goodbyesf on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:49AM (#37419710)
> Reading this makes me want switch jobs. I want to again work somewhere where in the morning I wake up and feel excited to work

Good god. Imagine if your life's ambition is to find a job that makes you excited to work. A slave who wants to be excited about his enslavement. A slave owner's dream.

True dystopia isn't some brutal authoritarian whipping the slave into submission. True dystopia is one that teaches a slave to want to be the best slave he can be.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on joining Google, how to become a great en... by tenkabuto on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:07AM (#37420016)
If you're gonna be a slave either way, why not try to be the happiest slave possible?
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Re:Paul Buchheit on joining Google, how to become a great en... by tstrimple on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:29AM (#37420388)
Pretty sure slaves didn't have the luxury of switching plantations or careers if they didn't like the treatment. I get the comparison of capitalism to slavery and I agree with it to a degree. But making it a literal comparison is ridiculous.
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