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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by rob74 on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:15AM (#49210802)
If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place, the question in the article's title kind of answers itself. It also makes "quiet quitting" seem almost the right thing to do: doing only the least possible to advance your company's goals while keeping both your job and your sanity, hoping that you will one day be offered a buyout package and then maybe find something more fulfilling...
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by marginalia_nu on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:24AM (#49210931)
A counterpoint would be that you don't really ever see investment bankers reacting in this fashion.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by Gud on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:52AM (#49212329)
Because engineers and investment bankers are wired differently.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by marginalia_nu on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:38PM (#49213013)
There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by pastel8739 on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:54PM (#49215467)
Aren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people?
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by asdff on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:18PM (#49215714)
Absolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by brewdad on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:27PM (#49218399)
They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by consensus1 on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:50PM (#49215422)
Having done both I would say not by much
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by seb1204 on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:02PM (#49218546)
Because they chose to not doom scroll?
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by pseudalopex on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:33PM (#49215249)
You don't really ever see investment bankers reacting how?
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by Lammy on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:57PM (#49216163)
> If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place

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