That's my take on it.. I'd say the comments are borderline burnout and projecting your pain/suffering on others.
I go completely the opposite of this dude, if you're not learning and not sharing, you're not working. Good employers know its better to have happy employees who grow than to have disgruntled employees who have far less productivity and enthusiasm to delivering anything of value
Glib response for a stupid comment, but I'll take some time to respond to yours. I also wholeheartedly agree with this, especially for a creative/knowledge intensive field. It is impossible to be nose to the grindstone 8 hours a day doing anything of value that can't be automated. I've listened to artists talk about this as well: a really good workflow for me is really hard thinking for an hour or two with the rest of the day refining/helping/sharing/learning/interacting/reviewing. This sort of garbage mindset leads to shit code, reviewers that only comment on variable names because they only care to focus on their work, inter-specialty prejudice, etc.
And I mean the biggest joke here is that we're talking about Stripe ... hugely successful with an awesome engineering culture. K bro.
I go completely the opposite of this dude, if you're not learning and not sharing, you're not working. Good employers know its better to have happy employees who grow than to have disgruntled employees who have far less productivity and enthusiasm to delivering anything of value