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Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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136 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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bradlys ◴[04 Jul 25 14:32 UTC] No.44464907[source]▶
Written by a European.

Reality is - if you’re an American and got into tech and are working for well paying tech companies, you’re not leaving and there’s no escape unless you fatFIRE. This is why FIRE is so big among the Silicon Valley tech crowd. Everyone knows. What’s the alternative for an American tech worker (primarily the people who read HN) who wants to stay where they live, keep a similar quality of living, and not work in toxic faang-esque H1B factories? There ain’t one.

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chobeat ◴[04 Jul 25 15:20 UTC] No.44465305[source]▶
This is like asking how you can keep drinking the blood of babies without the guilt of killing babies. The quality of living attributed to tech workers is on the condition that they participate in the system that extracts value from people and society. If you don't want to participate in that system of exploitation, you don't get the privileges that come with being an exploiter.
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bradlys ◴[04 Jul 25 21:16 UTC] No.44467948[source]▶
Acting as if this is even remotely unique to tech workers is ridiculous.

This Maoist third worldism rhetoric has no place here.

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1. chobeat ◴[05 Jul 25 07:09 UTC] No.44470686[source]▶
It's not exclusive to tech workers and it has nothing to do with Maoism. I'm not even leftist. It's just how our present economy works: since needs have long been satisfied, profit goes to who exploits better. Either the workers, nature, or the consumer. The more you exploit, the more you profit. Or do you think it's by chance that every major investment group, tech unicorn and military company does or enables unthinkable dystopic horrors?