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At their current burn rate they only have enough cash on hand through early next year.

I think when people say they want to be happy what they really mean is they want to find contentment. Contentment is a long-lasting feeling. Happiness is ephemeral.

The dirty secret of hiring is that employers are always thinking about cost, but how many employees out there think of themselves as a cost to a bottom line? Not many.

The most exploitable tech workers are young, single, males on H1-b visas. They will take a low salary and essentially be enslaved to their job because getting fired means getting kicked out of the country.

Old workers and women are more “expensive” because they use more healthcare than young single males. We must totally disconnect employers from healthcare once and for all.

We must also reform the H1-b system and stop employers from having so much leverage over vulnerable employees due to their visa status.

Point is, it’s not as if employers think young men are superior talents to women or older workers, it’s that they are by far the cheapest and most exploitable. We need to remove these incentives (or disincentives) that distort the hiring process and allow these discriminatory behaviors to bubble up in the first place.

If you’re going to choose a company based on whether they offer cubicles you’re going to be very disappointed.

That is an exception, not the rule. If you have Chase, Citi, BofA, etc. it’s been like .01% for 10 years.

Who are you referring to when you refer to “savers”? Interest rates have been basically 0 for a very long time for retail bank customers.

I’d question why someone would get this over Alexa-powered earbuds. The obvious benefit is this is “always on” your face and earbuds that are only on X% of your waking day, but at least when you are alone it seems like most people would wear their buds/headphones enough of the day where no one would really feel like they would need it in their glasses over headphones. Headphones are also an easier sell to a wider population of users since they’re relevant to all vs a subset of people who need or want to wear glasses.

I didn’t realize “late stage capitalism” meant removing subsidies that distort the free market.

For most of history meat was considered a luxury. In many countries it still is.

For what it’s worth, I’m all in on lab grown meat. Hopefully in 20 years we’ll look back in time and see how barbaric factory farming was.

Just get rid of factory farming. Meat should generally speaking be much more expensive than it is right now. Prices are artificially low due to subsidies and industrial scale farming practices.

The most incompetent founder/CEO I worked for had the most experience and was the oldest...

No...Google has 100k employees worldwide. Facebook is something like 30k worldwide.

A Facebook engineer just committed suicide last week due (allegedly) to workplace bullying made possible in part by his immigration status. Something like 45 women from Google just came forward claiming they were retaliated against for bringing up sexual harassment claims to HR this week.

You can’t generalize the claim that things are different at FAANGs either.

I share a very similar experience to the author, though somehow even a little more extreme, including working in an entry level role for a certain tech mafia, living through maybe half of the events detailed in the new Uber book, working for the family of the president’s son in law, and then working at an absolute dumpster fire of a crypto company.

Should probably write a book about it one day!