throwmeaway876

I have never seen a more obnoxious and pointless effort to politicize and raise awareness about something absolutely nobody cares about. What about worry about things that matter instead? There's more unjust things out there to be mad about than the company behind your password manager supporting a linux distribution associated with a guy you dislike.

>Why da f*#$ do they have to continue developing a technology which they think will replace droves of people by machines??

If they don't do it, others will anyway.

>There is nothing sexy about it. There is nothing cool about it either.

I disagree. I think it's very cool having machines that can actually talk to you and do stuff better than you.

I understand why people are upset since they perceive (justifiably) that their livelihoods are threatened and the CEOs and founders only made it worse by fear-mongering. However, the luddism and denial will always be absurd to me.

Save us with their cheap labor and worse working conditions? Damn, if only we were more like China we wouldn't so dependent on them...

What's the root cause of these ridiculous decisions being taken at tech corporations? Constantly, they fall into fads like these that everyone with a brain knows make no sense but still many companies decide to follow them. For example: RTO -> what's the point of this shit? we never knew for sure but higher ups at most tech companies suddenly decided that RTO was the way to go forward despite all the downsides. Another example: DEI policies, some of them were very non-sensical.

I believe there has to be some downward pressure on these executives to take these decisions but I would like to know where it's coming from exactly and what's the logic behind them. Is it some big institution like Blackrock which has leverage on many of these companies? That's always been my bet but I never knew for sure.

Exactly this.

I am convinced about the premise but for the love of god zoom out those charts.