Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike
by ken47 on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:37AM
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Can we stick to stats over caricatures? If we’re going to go by “gut feel,” the stereotype is that the status climbers primarily go into finance, consulting, medicine, and law - not engineering.
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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike
by caeril on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:49AM
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This stereotype was true up until 14 years ago.
My generation is the one that got mercilessly bullied for interest in science, engineering, and computers.
Gen Z watched The Social Network and suddenly decided that software development was cool. It is, by no means, a caricature, since these people graduated. The software profession is thoroughly infested by status strivers, at this point.
Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike
by ken47 on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:51AM
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My work at FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies would suggest that it’s far more probable that a random e.g. finance professional is driven primarily by perceived status than a software engineer.
The media still openly pokes fun at tech whizzes like Mark Zuckerberg and even Jeff Bezos in a way that they would never do to e.g. Jamie Dimon. The perceived statuses are still incomparable, and I think any competent Gen Zer knows it.