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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 04:21:55 JST Jess👾

   I hate how techbros have completely polluted the term crypto and AI, fucking over anyone who actually is talking about cryptography and legit machine learning and neural network use cases.

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 04:21:52 JST Jess👾

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     I mean, doctor has long been one of the standard paths to an upper middle class or petite boug life. In fact, doctor salary has comparatively gotten worse with hospitals demanding even more patients per day, insurance reimbursement dropping, hospital administration and shareholders slurping up a bigger and bigger chunk of the money, and having to do more and more unpaid work for pre-authorization and fighting insurance companies to actually cover the healthcare their patients need.

     But you are right. What sort of kid who likes computers actually dreams of building tech that spies on people and sells them ads? They want to make games. Or make even better computers. Or fun apps that let them do things with their friends. But instead, ever since at least the dot com boom, the whole field has just become one of the dwindling pathways for someone to actually make a decent salary.

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     cwicseolfor (cwicseolfor@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 04:21:54 JST cwicseolfor

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     @oxtyped @JessTheUnstill Money happened. It's not terribly different from, say, surgical studies - the people there for passion to help others are *exhausted* from being surrounded by people who basically showed up because it was a way to chase a multiple-six-figures income.

     Tech is worse because it's far easier to BS and politic your way up, but that same model is coming for medicine, or arguably already has in the form of hospital management.

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     oxtyped (oxtyped@mastodon.hackerdrinks.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 04:21:55 JST oxtyped

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     @JessTheUnstill I'm not sure what is it, but tech just feels so polluted over the last 10 years.

     Seems like more often than not, people online are just talking about how to make money quickly with tech and how to climb that tech career to make that sweet sweet Meta/Google SWE pay.

     What happened to people who actually want to be in tech because they love computers and technology and/or wanting to build something cool even if you can't make money out of it.