2024-11-13 🔄 programmerhumor ┃ RE: flashgnash
For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.
I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.
Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that’s someone else’s problem apparently.
The reason this bothers me so much is how hard it makes it to get a job
I’ve seen people in other companies getting paid significantly more than me who just have zero clue what they’re doing
Late stage capitalism.
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The issue is that capitalism fundamentally requires forward thinkers and enlightened (or at least rational) perspective to function sustainably.
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