What attitude is the appropriate one if everything will collapse?

There are long-tail risks to the stability of codebases, organisations, institutions, governments.. the soviet union collapsed.

It seems likely that some engineers can intuit such long-tail risks.

If linkedin is subject to a competitive threat which requires rapid innovation, the org will lose because it's development practices preclude it.

> What attitude is the appropriate one if everything will collapse?

Short the stock.

Sorry, should have been more clear.

It is when you - a normal, well adjusted engineer - realize you are feeling grumpy about something.

It might be a sign to explore what is really going on.

Agree with this. And why it’s important to have spaces to blow off steam and vent without being shunned as a bad team player or whatever. I’ve seen quite a bit of toxic positivity that makes people sit on their grievances in silence instead and become complicit and resentful (like the parent comment mentions). It’s much better to air it out - oftentimes there’s constructive things behind discomfort. In fact, discomfort is a guiding light for innovation imo.