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But I know a ton of really smart people who have done really well in Tech despite being Autistic... a lot of them have been treated like shit and “other-ized” for so long that they have no real empathy for people who disagree with them or get in their way
Bah. There is no need to make this so victim minded (I say this as a big tech engineer with an autistic kid). Some ppl are inherently more empathetic than others. Being on the spectrum often impairs innate empathy. Empathy can also be cultivated and even taught to someone completely lacking in it, if they're smart enough. If you have little innate empathy you need two things to cultivate it:
1. Incentives
2. Tools
30 years ago tools were hard to come by, but no longer. Incentives vary. If you're a rich engineer that's being told you're doing great, you have no incentive to change. If you go over to X you can get positive feedback for actively rejecting empathy. Without incentives to make un-empathetic people learn empathy, they will not do so. I think 2021 was probably the peak time in US history to be an unempathetic engineer. Since then, with tech layoffs, empathy has become more valuable (if you have to pick who to layoff, the unempathetic asshole is going to go before the kind person, all else equal) but the "intellectual Dark web" stuff has also taken off so those folks can find echo chambers to tell them their lack of empathy is a feature and it's the world's fault for not appreciating it.
There's nothing here!