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When you've been working for some big tech firm in a high-paying job for a decade, (or the company you work for gets bought by big tech) it must totally suck when you realise that your honest efforts are not only not making the 'net, computing, or the world better... they're actually *what's causing the problems* that *many other* are fighting again. I know more than a couple of those people.
Others, sadly, have so much tied up going the wrong way (with crushing mortgages) they can't afford to have an epiphany.... Instead, they rewrite their role in the narrative, and carry an extra load of cognitive dissonance.
@lightweight Of course you combine the start of this with the later comment of ignorance in your 20s, and you've got the frog in the cooking pot. i.e., not realizing you're going to get cooked until it's too late. "If I knew then what I know now." I know I just wanted the suburban home (nod to the Descendents). Of course I didn't recognize in the 80s the middle class was in the decline. Suspected it, but youth is optimistic.
