I sense that a lot of people are lowkey mad about how positively has taken everything, ruining their claim that he's a snowflake and also the pervasive theory that getting online hate to your real name is somehow the worst thing that can happen to a person.
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i'm highkey happy; i have shittons of highly dysfunctional feelings about money/career and 's thread has given me energy to dissipate some of the shame around that
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I think it takes a somewhat deranged person to work in e.g. tech and believe the money they receive is somehow totally morally justified.
Many sit at a desk, work mildly, benefitting from luck of the IQ draw, buy little and have a great excess slosh into their bank account.
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ah see that's exactly what i mean. thats exactly the sort of dysfunctional feeling i have. "working in tech should make you morally conflicted".
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dysfunctional feeling, stuck prior; whatever you call it, it's no good to *actually believe this* and make decisions based on it especially if you have strong aversions to moral conflictedness or deep fears of doing something Bad.
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"it's morally Bad to have a tech job or to work towards getting one" is basically what i believed and acted upon for a decade
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it's pretty cursed yeah and still present to some extent, dont quite know what to do about it. i think next time i do psychedelics i'm gonna try to let thoughts come up about that (and not mostly avoid them like the last time i tripped) and see if i can get some annealing going
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what comes to mind rn is i can imagine it being valuable to thoroughly separate out anything that's been introjected / is about other people's judgments, vs. any genuine moral qualms that (parts of) you have about the actual moral impacts of a tech job, as you see them
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hmm that should've been "(parts of) you *may* have"
personally parts of *me* have moral qualms about tech jobs so i inserted that in there a bit sorry 😅