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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

Anyway if any of you actually do hate techbros for being nerds and wanna give a fuck you to computer geeks in general and tech enterpreneurs in particular, I have an evil plan for you.

Found the Uber for software development. Create an app to connect customers with freelance developers (particularly in lower income countries) and crucially, make sure the developers are responsible for their own infrastructure. Have the devs shoulder the ever-growing burden of cloud bills and server maintenance, minimize your own role except as a middleman and encourage a race to the bottom between the people doing the actual work. Use your VC money on lawyers, manipulative user interface development, marketing and sabotaging your competition.

Congratulations, you will have accelerated the inevitable devaluation of the computer programming profession and stripped it of its perceived prestige. You will have fucked over the majority of software developers and IT operations people. You might even break the pretension that finance bros owe their wealth to their skill with computing technology. You will hoist some "disruptors" by their own petard, hit a bunch of people for collateral damage and probably make a lot of money for bigger fish capitalists.

Do not actually do this, or I hope one day you will be treated like the pestilent leech you are. Consider becoming a communist instead.

[-] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

So are techbros just software devs? I'm unsure what it means now. I thought it referred to the bitcoin/venture capitalist types

[-] raktheundead@fedia.io 11 points 4 months ago

The term includes those devs who carry water for the Silicon Valley vulture capitalist crowd as well.

[-] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

Thank you, I feel that's blurring the lines in a way I'm not happy with. But I appreciate your answer and the time you took to write it

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