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- most likely in a cubicle - reporting to middle managers - on a hardware and software stack selected for them - frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals - frequently in industries which centralize wealth and destroy small and local enterprises

All that and I'm not even a liberal saying it ;)

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Still an opportunity cost. And facebook, google and twitter are among the biggest hirers of the kind of people I'm talking about. 3 or 4 years at facebook or google makes for an even bigger opportunity cost.

3 or 4 years at facebook or google makes for an even bigger opportunity cost.

Can you elaborate on that?

Working at a company at facebook or google increases your human capital, increasing one's opportunity cost.

This can make it harder to leave the stable and growing pay check and try to create your own thing. This is not to even mention the growing amount of responsibilities that come with age (mortgage, family, etc.).

> reporting to middle managers - on a hardware and software stack selected for them - frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals > frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals

That's not where hackers who could realistically pull-off a tech start-up usually end up going to.

Or worse you become the middle manager.

yep. and each cubicle has a number on it. Guess where my username comes from?

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