• grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Another great example of why engineers should not be in charge of people, nor people’s wellbeing.

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      9 days ago

      Who else is an example of this? This seems like something that comes commonly from the MBAs that cosplay as techies. And while Brin is one of the few tech leaders who actually has any claim to technical brilliance, he has now been in management far longer than he ever was in a technical role.

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      9 days ago

      That’s quite sweeping.

      People like Brin may be engineers - or have roots as engineers - but the heads of these tech companies are first and foremost entitled 1%-ers, who function as businessmen more than anything else.

      The problem really is not that he’s an engineer - the problem is that he’s an asshole.

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        9 days ago

        The Venn diagram of engineers and entitled equity-seeking assholes has been becoming more and more of a circle since the mid 90s (or earlier, I would have been too young to notice )