Most of tech workers aren't half as free as the 5-years-at-FAANG-plus-a-moderately-successful-exit-already-got-my-Fuck-You-money folks who hang around this site. Most are working on boring Java programs or managing corporate networks, for well under mid-tier doctor compensation. Certainly not SF tech-giant money. And that's just in the US, let alone internationally, where comp even in tech-heavy cities doesn't approach FAANG-on-the-West-Cost or finance-in-NY-and-Chi salaries. The profession as a whole is a damn sight closer to blue-collar than we all want to pretend it is, and social status bears that out, especially (again) outside SF tech & VC circles. The fancy-B-school CEO at your tech startup is socially superior to the highly-paid tech nerds. That's just how class in America works. Earn enough money as a tech nerd and maybe your kids will be the next rung up the ladder, if you make the right choices especially re: where to send them to school (and I don't mean higher ed).
Expressions of superiority over or freedom from management on here are class-anxious posturing, expressions of a lived reality by a rare few, and sheer fantasy the rest of the time.
Expressions of superiority over or freedom from management on here are class-anxious posturing, expressions of a lived reality by a rare few, and sheer fantasy the rest of the time.