"ok, picture the most conscientious people on earth, getting a paycheck one fourth of your starting salary in tech fifteen years ago, working on chill things like 'curing cancer for all of humanity' or 'the fundamental mechanisms that explain alzheimers', being the de facto fulltime people manager for what's essentially a startup team, with the boss being someone who got security of employment 20 years ago and only had to learn one twentieth of what you now have to know"