I keep asking myself:
What happened to the principles that were professed a decade ago? To address climate change? To reduce racial, gender, and economic inequality? To “don’t be evil”?
Were these principles abandoned, or were they merely born of convenience?
Has tech always been like this? Was I just blind to it before?
When I say that I am burnt out I do not mean simply that I am tired. I’m referring to the “emotional experience of political defeat”
— Hacker NewsReplicated under Fair Use from Do I belong in tech anymore? by Hacker News.