• MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    It’s not a pipeline. 2018 and 2025 guys either had 2014 guy killed or they ruined his life and forced him into suicide.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.

    We… used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.

    Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:

    Fucking Corpo Scum.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Bad meme. Implies “information wants to be free” leads to “have you considered monetizing empathy?”

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      01·
      10 months ago

      I disagree. It’s not “one leads to the other,” it’s that people change. Far too often people start out, not just in tech, bucking the system in some way. Anti-authority, pro-privacy, anti-centralized control, etc.

      But when the server costs start mounting for a service that gets popular and money needs to come in, people change. Now you need to monetize via ads or whatever, now you get attacked, you circle the wagons, get investors, and it’s all downhill from there.

      Digg and Reddit are big examples, Google could arguably be a similar case, it happens in music too where a band “sells out”, like Metallica for example. An originally anti-authority metal band starts lawsuits and banning fans to protect profits.

      Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 months ago

        You may have missed the word “pipeline.” I’m not denying people change, but this meme is suggesting that good intentions are the first step toward bad intentions.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.

      • hyperhopper@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        7 figures??? That’s not selling out, that’s just trying to get anything for a sinking ship if you sell for a million. Thats barely covering salary+expenses for 2-5 engineers depending on level and location.

      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
        0·
        10 months ago

        I’m taking the money and giving a fat chunk of it to programs and things that my government refuses to do anything about. I don’t give a fuck about shallow things like “selling out.”

            • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
              0·
              10 months ago

              Trump owns the government, all the taxes you’re paying go into his pockets and pockets of his friends. Especially after DOGE went through the offices.

              • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
                0·
                10 months ago

                I can see that. I’d hope I could offset it by actually dumping my personal funds into working class programs and offer direct relief, but I know it’s a stupid thought exercise. The reality is that I’ve been in tech for years and have always actively avoided FAANG companies, and any and all paths that lead to corporate or management.

                • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
                  0·
                  10 months ago

                  You’ll be better off dumping your cash into stock and shares.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        0·
        10 months ago

        How many here are working for these tech bros or putting money on their companies?

  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    10 months ago

    I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

    Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that’s what the actual “tech bros” want.

    This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also the timeline should ne more like 1990 : Information wants to be free

      Bill Gates: No

      Etc.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    01·
    10 months ago

    The first one is a hacktivist, the second one is an OSS dev, and the third is a tech bro. So not really a pipeline since there are still hacktivists, OSS devs, ans tech enthusiasts (also most tech bros started in finance)