a friend linked this to me earlier today: nitter (someone else maybe archive it? I don’t know what tusky has done to birdsite and how to make wayback play nice)
in one lens/view one could see this as just more of the same (if people were already gunning for YC track shit, there’s other things already implied etc), but even so: just how bad is(/must) the “belief” (be) for young people to feel this intensely about it?
I’m over here just watching the arc of likely events and I can barely fathom the anger and disappointment that may[0] come about in a few years after this
[0] - “may” because it seems a lot of folks have their anger redirected far too easily; remains to be seen if it can remain correctly directed in future
ahah! you fell into my little trap. It’s not spam if you ask for it! haha
I wrote about it recently here https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/
The summary explanation is that UX design/research has developed, over a long period, a posture of being the empathetic discipline that cares about people and exists to serve their needs - which is only compatible with capitalism as long as serving people’s needs results in a higher return for the business.
Sorry, not a very eloquent summary this early in the morning…