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monkey.work's avatar

Also as someone who worked for the big tech SV companies, there is nothing meritocratic there anymore. On average, out of 20 engineers, 2 meaningfully contribute to the company, 10 produce nothing for years and don't get fired, and eight are good at politics but not in coding and therefore get promoted.

There is a reason why Musk fired more than 50% of Twitter engineers and the product was unharmed.

In addition, majority of the executives in SV are extremely narrow minded and prefer quick money that comes from green scams to serious R&D investments.

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Ben Smith's avatar

Great post and I will share this with friends who want to know about the tech right. I think you got the nail on the head.

I gotta push back on Trump's "promise" on the all in podcast, which was indeed something he said, but not worth the bits it's encoded in:

> But hours after Mr. Trump’s remarks aired, his campaign’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, walked back the former president’s comments, saying in a statement that...the policy would apply only to the “most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20240701180645/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/trump-green-cards-college-graduates.html

While they both fit the meritocracy scheme, there's a huge difference between giving green cards out to all grads and "only the most skilled grads", which could mean anything from selecting a large % of the top students from all institutions to limiting the policy to CS PhD grads from the top five departments.

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