Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
by JohnFen on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:57PM
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Indeed so.
For a while now, I've been struggling with the realization that I may need to just leave this industry entirely as a dev.
The tickle in my brain that tells me that as an industry we have ceased to be a force for (on the whole) good and have instead become a force for profit extraction above all else is getting too loud for me to ignore.
It seems to me that the tech that I've been helping to build for decades has been repurposed and weaponized against people instead of helping people and improving everyone's situation.
For a while now, I've been struggling with the realization that I may need to just leave this industry entirely as a dev.
The tickle in my brain that tells me that as an industry we have ceased to be a force for (on the whole) good and have instead become a force for profit extraction above all else is getting too loud for me to ignore.
It seems to me that the tech that I've been helping to build for decades has been repurposed and weaponized against people instead of helping people and improving everyone's situation.