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I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable, and you wanted to aspire to be in life. Bill Gates, founders of Google Larry Page, Sergey brin, Steve Jobs (wasn't perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy), basically everyone involved in gaming from Xbox to PlayStation and so on, Tom from MySpace... So many admirable people who were actually really great....

Now, people are just trash. Look at Mark Zuckerberg who leads Facebook. Dude is a lizard man, anytime you think he has shown some character growth he does something truly horrible and illegal that he should be thrown in prison for. For example, he's been buying up properties in Hawaii and basically stealing them from the locals. He's basically committing human rights violations by violating the culture of Hawaiian natives and their land deeds that are passed down from generation to generation. He has been systematically stealing them and building a wall on Hawaii, basically a f*cking colonizer. That's what the guy is. I thought he was a good upstanding person until I learned all these things about him

Current CEO of Google is peak dirtbag. Dude has no interest in the company or it's success at all, his only concern is patting his pockets while he is there as CEO, and appeasing the shareholders. He has zero interest in helping or making anyone's life pleasant at the company. Truly a dirtbag in every way.

Current CEO of Home Depot, which I now consider a tech company because they have moved out of retail and into the online space and they are rapidly restructuring their entire business around online sales, that dude is a total piece of work conservative racist. I remember working for this company, This dude's entire focus is eliminating as many people as feasibly possible from working in the store, making their life living heck, does not see people as human beings at all. Just wants to eliminate anyone and everyone they possibly can, think they are a slave labor force

Elon musk, we all know about him, don't need to really say much. Every time you think he's doing something good for society, he proves you wrong And does the worst thing he can possibly do in that situation. It's like he's specifically trying to make the world the worst place possible everyday

Like, damn. What the heck happened to the world? You know? I thought the tech industry was supposed to be filled with these brilliant genius people who are really good for the world...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's where the money is. Simple.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Steve Jobs (wasn't perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy),

Very very incorrect. He was a complete garbage pail of a human being from the very beginning.

Behind the Bastards: Part One: The Terrible Secret of Steve Jobs https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-terrible-secret-of-steve-jobs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

They have a series on Gates too.

The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Shareholders want the CEO that gets them more money. If that person doesn't deliver, they don't ask why, they ask when. If they don't like the answer, they get a new CEO. Rinse repeat, here we are.

Except Zuckerberg, of course. He's just evil.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

If you want to push material that completely contradicts morals (respect for privacy and free speech, for example), maybe you need this kind of people. They'll just say they don't give a f*** right to your face. Not that Bill Gates or Larry Page are any different, the times just changed. Do you really believe Bill Gates is that intelligent God among men? Because I don't.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Narcicistic sociopaths are the best profile to boost profit. Even some of the "good guys" you listed as founders were some trashy pricks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

People haven't really changed. As always, power corrupts. When the rewards are great enough, it seems people are often enough willing to compromise their integrity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hint: it's not just in tech...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To get to the top you have to throw people under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"If they're gonna drown, put a hose in their mouth"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Evil people are less constrained by morality and more capable of doing what is necessary to climb hierarchies. This can happen in any organización, not just business.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ding ding ding. Capitalism selects for psychopathy.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I remember when I was growing up

You can basically stop right there. You were young and naive, viewing the world through the rose colored glasses of youth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

For real, all those guys were always cutthroats. How do you think they dominated the markets? It was not because they shared and encouraged competition. No, they stole, lied, and cheated their way to the top.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

You cant get that kind of money without being piece of shit humanbeing. You need to constantly look out for opportunities to exploit others and how could you even do that if you have any shred of empathy or decency. Not sure if they were like this from the beginning or if they became like this when they got enough money or if its influence from their family, but we will all suffer under their rule.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

You're out of your mind if you thought bill gates was someone to look up to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

living heck

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

When did you grow up that Gates has not been evil yet? All of the 90s was marked by Microsoft making home computing worse to create a monopoly. Fucking emails formatted in a way that's unreadable outside Windows, closed .doc format that became a de facto standard in offices and likely many other things I don't remember

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

As the old Microsoft saying went, "it ain't done til Notes don't run"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

FUD wars on Free and Open Source Software, shady deals with companies and governments to make them dependent on MS software and solutions, holding the web hostage to IE “standards”, …

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