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[–] gravitas_deficiency 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s an excellent and salient point.

It also cuts to the very core of my deep frustration around finance types more or less calling the shots entirely throughout the entirety of my career as a software engineer. The choice is very, very often between building good, reliable, well-thought-out systems that are genuinely helpful and barely scraping by (or in some cases, not) financially… or creating crappy, slapped-together, ad-riddled, society-destroying bullshit while taking a paycheck that’s decent enough to support your family.

When people talk about wage slavery, this is exactly what they mean.

Edit: revised awful wording

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Woe be to man, struck down by his own invisible hand. As Oroborous, we consume, orchestrating our own doom.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok that's a fantastic quote. Are those lyrics to a song? Where did it come from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pulled it from my mind starfish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In that case, you should know that a random person on the Internet thinks it's pretty kickass. It'll stick with me for a while.