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I disagree. It’s not “one leads to the other,” it’s that people change. Far too often people start out, not just in tech, bucking the system in some way. Anti-authority, pro-privacy, anti-centralized control, etc.

But when the server costs start mounting for a service that gets popular and money needs to come in, people change. Now you need to monetize via ads or whatever, now you get attacked, you circle the wagons, get investors, and it’s all downhill from there.

Digg and Reddit are big examples, Google could arguably be a similar case, it happens in music too where a band “sells out”, like Metallica for example. An originally anti-authority metal band starts lawsuits and banning fans to protect profits.

Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

yeah, the “information wants to be free” and the other two are completely different people….
it’s more like, 3 different kinds of tech people:

also, i’m going to call this “tech-bro” thing sexism… women are awesome in tech and the field can be very exclusionary… just because society has been keeping women out of tech, doesn’t mean you can just assume they’re all bros….

also check out unixsocks… they’re definitely not bros….

I don't know that it was ever as much like that--I think the earlier adopters of those technologies were more like that, and as the general public gained interest and increased usage, the trend swung the other way. Remember in 2005 when owning a mac device basically initiated you into a cult? Apple stores were set up like sanctuaries where people came to worship.

Even by the 90's, it was already accepted that being good with computers could be a great career path to make money. When I went to university in early 00's, people who were on an engineering track commonly went into computers because the salaries were better than other engineering fields.

There were some people who loved the tech, but a lot of them made the choice due to financial reasons.

"Tech Bro" as a term though does pretty much imply insufferable nouveaux-riche douchbags devoid of any genuine emotion, who are happy to squash human dignity on an industrial scale for profit, and think themselves cool for doing it.

If someone is into tech for the true sake of technology then by definition they aren't a "tech bro" - they are a programmer, a hacker, a hardware tinkerer, an open-source evangelist, or any number of cool things that don't involve being an huge dickhead :)

It's really just about power, but money is one of the best ways to obtain it.

Honestly selling the company is understandable. Getting out is normal.

It's the ones that turn into sociopaths that bother me.

I mean a lot of us talk big game but I’m sure many of us would sell out for a 9 figure acquisition. Hell for 7.

Ironically brought to you by the same tech bros it's dissing.

It's not something that's unique to tech, but I read it as a joke about enshittification due to greed.

Lots of start-up companies start out all idealistic and positive, then don't stay true to that mission as the founders age and want more (or sell out to a bigger company).

The feeling of power that being in the technology sector brings changes a man.