I’m gonna go out on a limb and say knowingly burning down the world’s future so you get to party now was and always has been the position of someone who is a fucking loser. This goes as much for current tech barons as it did for Exxon when they discovered climate change was real and covered it up because their profits mattered more than, you know, not burning the planet to a fucking cinder.
So, in other words, no you shouldn’t be shocked they’re such fucking losers because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be angling to burn the world down so they can party. Only a true fucking loser could and would pursue that to begin with.
It’s like when former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was caught paying boatloads of prostitutes to fuck him in an orgy, and his defense was “I was just sure all these beautiful young women wanted to have an orgy with me because I’m just so amazing and beautiful, and it never had anything to do with the vastness of my wealth and the fact that they were being highly paid to even look at my filthy ugly old body.”
You’ve gotta be some kind of fucking loser to think anyone would believe that when you’re a fucking Methuselah-lookin-ass ugly goblin like Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
They were, and always have been, losers.
It’s like the gilded age except instead of gold we get plastic.
As a nerd, I don’t like the end of the article where she says we need to get revenge on the nerds. I don’t consider any tech bro to be a nerd, and I’ve worked with a lot of them.
As a nerd, I don’t like the end of the article where she says we need to get revenge on the nerds.
I hear you, as many would I think. But realistically, I think calling tech culture into question, even beyond its manifestation in the psychotic tech CEO types, is worth while. It’s really had a dominant run both materially and culturally (a revenge as many would see it), and I think it’s worthwhile questioning the value of a lot of it, in a way I don’t think many nerds and tech people are capable of (sadly IMO).
There may be an inclination to separate the capitalism and nerdy parts. But as an industry/profession/whatever that generally tends to care a lot about itself in various ways … I think tech is disturbingly uninterested in caring about the quality of its profession beyond the bike shedding stuff let alone acting on it in any collective way. There are reasons for this, but given the dominance tech now has in the world, pushing back in the culture wholesale is justified I think.
Yeah, the tech industry tends to do things without thinking of the consequences. For example, the resistance to making software engineering a certified engineering profession like mechanical or structural engineering.
But nerds predated the tech industry, and encompass a lot more than the tech industry.
