Silicon Valley was a place of engineering invention, and then the money-people saw, "Oh, there's riches to be made here!"...
replyThey explicitly built cryptocurrency as a way to hoard more wealth. It was the "engineers" not just the money people.
replyI worked at blockchain companies for 4 years and this is not true.
replyThe ratio of degenerate engineers is maybe 30% but business people is 80%.
People I have worked with were much better compared to other companies I worked in like aviation or consulting
Same here. I’ve met a lot of smart, passionate people in the space that are very respectable.
replyI absolutely believe this, it attracts developers that can see the idealistic potential. It is worthwhile to do your part for an ideal future.
replyThe fact that you your vision is undermined by a determined group of profiteers doesn’t diminish the value of what you can accomplish toward an ideal future.
I don’t think I’ve ever worked with anyone in engineering who I would consider degenerate aside from the occasional crypto supporter. Even 30% seems like a scary high percentage of degenerate engineers.
replyAll it takes is for the engineer in charge to be degenerate and the others willing to go along with it, that's how you get a Meta, etc
replySilicon Valley came up as a result of the military industrial complex in the Cold War.
replyMoney was always the point.