THE TWO ALREADY GOT RE-HIRED BY MICROSOFT FOR MILLIONS AND ARE WEALTHY BEYOND ANYBODY’S DREAMS

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      10 months ago

      The scary part is the handful of computer touchers I maintained contact with after they got whisked away into surveillance or even military-industrial empires present themselves as superficially happy about their work. Not just on LinkedIn; they sort of present themselves like a LinkedIn account. bootlicker

      For those reading that don’t know what that is like, just imagine a typical HackerNews community circlejerk but lived and spoken. agony-4horsemen

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          10 months ago

          It’s especially fucked how they buy into the “cool hacker rebel with a hoodie” aesthetic like a fucking youtube music compilation and make six figures and wear lanyards while making society a little more oppressive.

          They probably are truly happy working on that dumb ass empire

          Without confirmed exception the ones I know are all “GALACTIC EMPIRE DID NOTHING WRONG” contrarians that also enthusiastically talked about their “zombie apocalypse survival plans” hypersus