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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company used to be so idealistic that people were 'not working very hard'
(www.businessinsider.com)
Fuck spez
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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I have a gut feeling that if looked for, a downward trend in the in the quality of reddit starts when he came back.
Work hard?
Work at all?
Employees?!
Is this what he calls the mods?
It's frustrating that rich scumbags just get to live a rich life. Where's the justice in that? Saint Luigi deliver us from assholes like Huffman.
"In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it's almost an entitlement of, 'I work at these companies, but I don't have to work very hard and I'm here for myself,'" he said.
I always found it amusing how the term "entitlement" has been butchered by Americans. It's the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.
How is "I'm here for myself" an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like ... wait for it ... running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that's an individual thing. A business isn't automatically entitled to any of that.
Yay Capitalist propaganda!
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Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.
They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.
It's so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.
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All my homies hate spez
Why you need so many homies though
A good homie support structure is important to most people's mental health. I, for example, have no homies and at best meh mental health.
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I bet his yearly salary he can't name a single facet of what he is referring to as 'work' and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.
I bet his yearly salary he can’t name a single facet of what he iS referring to as ‘work’ and has no earthly idea how the tech behind Reddit works or is maintained.
You'd lose that bet. He was around when Reddit was pretty small, and I'm pretty sure wrote some of the original (Common Lisp, IIRC) codebase at least, if not the later Python rewrite.
kagis
Yeah, sounds like he was working on the Python codebase too.
I’m Steve Huffman, aka u/Spez. I founded both Reddit and Hipmunk (where I was CTO). Until about a year and a half ago, I was a full time engineer. I started programming as a kid, and worked as a developer through high school and college at Virginia (CS major).
That was from 2017.
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People have been saying this about the U.S. tech industry for years and the reason is that the rich were mad working in tech here in the U.S. used to be a decent career and so this became the bullshit line given to corporate media by CEOs.
There is literally nothing to it beyond this.
I assume the rest of his sentiment goes something like: 'not working very hard.....to increase shareholder value'
amen
Yeah that dude is on the short list too.
Which communities delete comments for mentioning the gentleman in green overalls?
At some point one of these dudes is just gonna hire the wrong security goons.