Am I right to say that tech disproportionately pulls in not well-adjusted people?
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i hate to say it this bluntly but working in tech actively selects against emotional development, spiritual development, having any real understanding of the project of human living. tech people who acquire those things mostly stop wanting to work in tech. i see it all the time
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This is my sense, too. I wanted to hear more people's experience (and yours counts, of c!)
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I think you and I are both somewhat selected to believe the kind of thing you wrote because we went down that path and washed out precisely because we needed to develop emotionally, etc.
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I think what's going on here is that before they work in tech, they don't have money, so they can't afford to focus on becoming self actualized or whatever at the expense of paying rent. After they work in tech they're basically good for money, so they can
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I'm in the before stage, so I live with my parents atm. I don't really have other skills that are likely to be as lucrative, and I want to be an independent functional adult. Working in tech seems like basically the only path towards achieving that for me
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