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   Blåhaj (blahajj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 23:26:59 JST Blåhaj

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Yeah, I don't know. I don't like to engage in job-related purity testing (especially when it's common in tech for e.g. people's immigration status to be tied to their job), but I was already side-eyeing people working at those places a solid decade ago, and things have gotten immeasurably worse since

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     Jens Zalzala (anakin78z@mograph.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 01:11:57 JST Jens Zalzala

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I don't think it's talked about enough that a lot of those people are 'locked in'. I know at least 2 people that are just counting the days until their contracts are done, their shares are vested, and they actually get what they signed up for. Both of them have families. One of them has large medical bills.

     I think the exodus will be slow instead of sudden. But it will come over time.

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     mpc3032at (mpc3032at@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 07:52:52 JST mpc3032at

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs yeah :/ it's heartbreaking.

     i've been forced to end an old and significant friendship over this after increasingly frantic pleading (they never talk about their work with any enthusiasm, have occasionally admitted to being ashamed by it, and are frequently miserable because of it) to take their significant spoils and go do e.g. that food truck thing they occasionally dreamnt about...

     but, nope, addicted to the hustle and the spoils, with their empathy atrophying by the day :(