mrhands

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

i. True, although hopefully you aren't starting a nursing career while already planning how you're going to leave.

This in fact a big part of the techbro mindset, and even kinda just the regular grunts too. They're always looking at every job as nothing but a chance to either cashout big on equity/stock, or temporary until they can cash-in big on their side project.

Plus turnover in tech is incredibly high for such a high-paying field because tech companies just ... don't give raises. If you want to make more money or move to a higher position, you just have to leave for somewhere that'll offer you more. None of my jobs in tech have lasted more than a couple of years, and even senior guys I knew who'd been in the industry for decades still had a revolving door policy with most of the consultancies in town.

Nursing mostly works by "if you want a raise, switch jobs" too and I also average 2-3 years in a job, that's pretty normal here. But that's all within healthcare, just bouncing between different hospitals and clinics. It's the "you won't be working towards a big cashout" part that I'm less sympathetic to.

I deleted a reply about this yesterday because it was too much of a tangent but on this post it's slightly more on topic to say "Earning To Give makes me go fucking feral, how can you have a make-world-better plan with STEP ONE: GET A HIGH-PAYING JOB, and still take yourself seriously." the whole thing, like much of big-r Rationalism itself, is such a nu-atheism kneejerk. like yes obviously suffering in worthy poverty while enforcing Christian moral standards on everyone who recieves your charity is not "effective" altruism, but the only alternative isn't "go work for a 'morally neutral' defense contractor so you can donate 10% of six figures to defeating mecha-Satan and/or purchasing doses of child dewormer".

Yep, and besides being rationalizations for people who don't want to admit they'll just do anything for money, it's yet another manifestation of this weird class thing where administering the dewormer is always left up to some other sucker. How convenient that the person who gets their hands dirty gets fewer Virtue Points for it anyway.

the reactionary cult that nearly snared me as a dumb teenager who thought I was smart was Objectivism (the ayn rand fuckers) and though I sheered off after a couple of months of reading newsletters I can still trace the lineage directly, the stink of anti-collectivism is high. "you need to be a Leader and Director and you can do more to save the world with a cool million dollars than you can teaching sixth grade for 15 years" is... a way of looking at things, I guess, but the satisfaction in actually administering the dewormer is knowing there are thousands of people just like you. "rationalists" reeeeaallly struggle with any conception of "doing good" that doesn't cast them as the Only Special Boy: the player character in a world of NPCS.

in reply to @mrhands's post:

sometimes i see a youtube sponsor, i go "there is probably a reason why they're paying someone you trust to pretend they know the product instead of any other way of advertising". and then when you google the company i'll always find that reason