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I ebbed and flowed. Was politically active and radical in my teen years, then entered engineering school and drank the "technology will make everything better bro trust me" kool-aid, graduated and had a pretty good job for a while, before remembering why shit was fucked. Left it all, moved across the world, and now I'm the most radical I've ever been.
ugh same. got caught up in the ridiculous tech-optimism of the early-to-mid 2010s. I thought self-driving cars and VR were the frickin' future. it's hard to imagine now but there was so little public criticism of big tech back then
It's really insidious. It feeds on the elitism top engineering schools have, too... that smug feeling of "we know calculus we're so special, if engineers ran the world instead of lawyers we wouldn't have any problems". In hindsight... yuck. I would've clowned on my past self so hard that lil' Trashcan would've transition earlier.