that's the standard agit-prop of the right for the last 80, brah

passion makes sense when people can afford the rent

there will be one school shooting and no one would be able to call 911 and then there will be a public outcry.

the big tech companies making these phones and apps will amplify that outcry hard, and the phones will be let back in. the addiction will continue.

IBM is also not known for holding on to bodies -- IBM layoff stories abound.

a glut of junior hires now does not a pretty picture make in the long-term sense

> while others still keep getting recruiter messages on LinkedIn and can get a new position in a matter of weeks.

many of those are blasts, and the jobs they are hiring for are vaporware.

i wasted a lot of time as a younger worker thinking that headhunter and recruiter chats on linkedin were worth the trouble.

make no mistake, sometimes they are, but for easily 50% of tech workers they're a waste of time

No, they're not.

That's how me and several people in my network have gotten jobs in the last few years.

That's also how I relocated to another country 10 years ago. Via recruiters.

would they? height of California Dreaming counter-culture.

now it's a corporate dystopia

essentially a highly explosive "broken window fallacy"

correct. they've mostly shifted to a militarized economy and all available labor is now gobbled up.

salaries are pretty good, relatively speaking, if you're in engineering or other STEM fields.

excess labor is being drained off to die horribly to drones in eastern Ukraine.

it's kind of like a fat guy starving to death -- for a minute all that weight loss will bring improvements to blood pressure, insulin, etc., but in a couple weeks he's not gonna feel so great

Russia is now China's Canada

they are not happy, they are distracted and vaguely know it's not going well.

the "russian firehose" approach and vryanyo (institutional lying) means they're bombarded with info but also know most of it is BS, but not necessarily how or why.

they know it's not going well but at this point much of the economy is on war-footing and if they're not drafted they're probably getting paid okay. STFU and keep your head down and you won't get drafted.