[Henchman21]

You are so naive you don’t get it yet?

All of “adult” life is performative . Life is a game, a performance, a little play you put on for the benefit of all.

Consider this: if management thinks something is impressive, well that makes it impressive. Managers, by definition, manage people, and having 1:1 meetings helps with that. Are you supposing managers also make the same exact effort and contribution as ICs? Would they still be managers?

Do you have an engineering license? Are you personally liable for the code you write? No? Guess who else is “cosplaying as engineers”?

[sqquima]

I don't think it's either black or white. That said, I wanted to highlight that some adults do have some neurodivergence, which, in a way, makes them a bit naive and unable to navigate the game you mention. There is no need to be condescending.

[Henchman21]

To add:

This entire post rubs me so wrong. It just feels so naive, so foolish. I feel I’ve been baited into anger.

[uncivilized]

You really think the work you do matters and is not performative?

Meta, OpenAI, etc. could disappear overnight and I think most people would say good riddance (apart from those needing jobs).

[Henchman21]

I do not think that. I mistakenly responded to myself -- so you're responding to my own echo. :)

My personal thoughts on the matter are: we should burn this society to the ground and begin anew. Life will grow from the ashes of the Capitalists.

[hnthrow10282910]

This response is naive.