[eZinc]

All these "NO" answers haha... makes sense why there are record layoffs and zombie/dead startups.

I think Claude Code will save many small businesses.

[jakeydus]

"Nobody wants to work anymore"[0] is a trope as old as industrialization itself.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w3si8l/nobody_wan...

[eZinc]

A trope is a trope because it is commonly true for long periods of time. This proves nothing.

Cycles exist, and there can be periods of time where there is true passion in an industry followed by lack thereof.

A boom and bust economic system guarantees that there will always be times where a ton of "normies" enter tech who just want a paycheck during booms.

[luddit3]

Is it really that surprising that a vast majority of people don't work a job that is not better than doing whatever they want whenever they want?

[grugagag]

What do you mean? The layoffs have nothing to do with people loving their jobs or being loyal to their employers.

[eZinc]

I just mean people are just not excited about tech as they used to be.

I would expect, out of all the sites on the Internet, that people would say something like trying to lead some initiative that they never had the courage to do so before leaving the company if given no opportunity for the love of the industry.

Most of my neighbors who have well more than $10M in the bank (Tesla stock, houses, cash, etc.) and they all work because they enjoy it. The younger neighbors quit and just sit around doing nothing but collecting rent money from houses.

But of course, the only constant in life is that things will change. It isn't that surprising I suppose.

[jabroni_salad]

This thread is about jobs. If I had $10M in the bank I would be developing something I had equity in instead of enriching others.

If you ever hang out in the nonprofit sector you will notice that a lot of these underpaid workers are independently wealthy as well.

[queenkjuul]

I program for fun on my own time, I'm absolutely passionate about technology. What I'm not passionate about is spending 40 hours a week increasing shareholder value or making some capitalist asshole more rich and powerful than they already are.