https://www.wired.com/story/tech-bros-dating-palantir-tesla/
When 28-year-old Helen was an undergraduate at Stanford from 2016 to 2020, she viewed men in tech as guys who “stay up late and maybe have bad hygiene.” But her feelings toward them have gotten even worse over time as she’s questioned the industry’s overall impact.
Helen’s family is from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, whose population, beginning in 2020, was subjected to a prolonged period of human rights abuses. “When I started thinking about questions around genocide and the technology that kills or tracks or excludes,” Helen says, “I realized that the things these people are building are secretly, or under the surface, really nefarious, and I could not personally be with someone who is a puzzle piece in that tapestry.”
Helen herself has worked in tech. Soon after graduating from college, she accepted a job at Grammarly. But after about a year, she went to work for a mutual-aid platform and now is employed at an impact investing firm funding technology for underserved communities. Similarly, Sasha, a 31-year-old Oakland resident, had a brief stint working in AI before heading to a sustainability-focused tech company, where she is now chief of staff. In dating, when she meets someone who works or wants to work in AI, she wonders, “Does that mean that we have the same values in terms of climate and sustainability and thinking about human rights?”
she went to work for a mutual-aid platform and now is employed at an impact investing firm funding technology for underserved communities
heading to a sustainability-focused tech company, where she is now chief of staff
These are not real jobs that real people can have.
Bullshit Jobs is one of those books that has aged like fine wine
Helen herself has worked in tech. Soon after graduating from college, she accepted a job at Grammarly. But after about a year, she went to work for a mutual-aid platform and now is employed at an impact investing firm funding technology for underserved communities.
So more scam shit then.
If you think about it loan sharks are also financial firms for underserved communities.
thats called microfinancing, sweetie, and somehow everyone involved get to be a billionaire with humanistic flair
I’m assuming this is one of those scenarios where it’s like
“hmm we have all this money to help people in need. Should we start a food bank? or a free clinic? no certainty not! There’s no ROI! We need investment opportunities people! They don’t have to make us filthy rich like they normally do but god they can’t just be actually charity!!”
There’s also a bad smell of ngos often weaponized against overseas welfare policies in progressive disguise around many places in the world
Why don’t they just date AI if it’s so good?
didn’t one of the main places for that just file for bankruptcy a couple months ago?
I could not personally be with someone who is a puzzle piece in that tapestry.
damn, helen talks like i wish I could write.
I am unreasonably distracted by this shitty mixed metaphor. I’ve totally forgotten everything else this article is about and all I can think of is tapestries somehow being made of fucking puzzle pieces.
It’s a real fly in the armor… or wait is it a removed in the ointment?
i dig it. like rather than a person being woven into a collective effort with intention and skill, it’s abruptly snapped in like any drunk toddler crawling by could do.
If only it was intentional.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you spend too much time working on distributed systems
Those TPS reports will really scramble your brain too.
they can’t get dates, meanwhile ethan klein (briefly) managed a wife and mistress
Those women presumably thought he was funny, which is a positive quality not shared by tech bros.
This headline is very unfair, crying because no one wants to date you is a lot more relatable than what tech bros are actually doing.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
