• Srh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    To bad a good bit of tech engineers see themselves as rugged individuals, who are an eventual executives and are essential to the companies they work for. So they do nothing to help other workers because the they that would be “hurting themselves”.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, unfortunately, at least since the 80s, a lot of goofy narratives about how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were “just like you” (meaning the random Galt’s Gulch engineer) and with a little pluck and a lot of coding, they made billions. Rinse and repeat this with lots and lots of new characters heading up new companies…

      Um, neither of them made that money as engineers…they might have started out doing some related work, but they quickly turned to exploiting other engineers to make the real money.