>feel like my job isn’t making any difference to the world
>sad that I’m spending most of my waking hours on something meaningless
>look on the market for a different job
>it’s all either directly serving the professional managerial class or a product that employs every dark pattern and “nudge” known to man
>feel like nobody gives away or makes anything cool away anymore without immediately trying to be extractive
Do the ideals ever come back? It feels like engineers lost say in “minimum bar of acceptable shitiness” and now everything is run by some product manager trying to squeeze as hard as possible.
Our company just got rid of free accounts; effectively removing any self onboarding. A move one would consider suicide 5 years ago and probably suicide now. I don’t know what the fuck these people are thinking anymore and I’m losing all hope
Is the answer just don’t do web dev
