Alienation. The word the author should be looking for is alienation.
Back when the paychecks were fatter and we could choose jobs, the benefits weighed against the risk of a stress-induced heart attack (I know at least two developers who had one before their 40s). Now not anymore.
This is an industry in which people have always done a crappy job and called it “engineering”, with a culture primed to avoid any kind of accountability and smart enough to sell it as a perk to workers for a very long time.
I don’t want it to burn to the ground but, oh my, how good would it be if something completely different came up from the ashes.
Alienation. The word the author should be looking for is alienation.
Back when the paychecks were fatter and we could choose jobs, the benefits weighed against the risk of a stress-induced heart attack (I know at least two developers who had one before their 40s). Now not anymore.
This is an industry in which people have always done a crappy job and called it “engineering”, with a culture primed to avoid any kind of accountability and smart enough to sell it as a perk to workers for a very long time.
I don’t want it to burn to the ground but, oh my, how good would it be if something completely different came up from the ashes.
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