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submitted 1 week ago by foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A damn good find - bringing particular attention to this passage, since it pinpoints one of the major causes of the rot:

The following doesn’t apply to everybody in technology, but it applies to enough of them: At some point STEM education was the only thing the Olds cared about because of something something Asia, and now we have a couple of generations that are highly educated on paper and comically unaware of the complexity of the world outside of WordPress plugins.

[–] foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

yes, i found it particularly mentionable b/c of its laconic observations. as far as analysis goes i doubt there's a need for something new, Kritische Theorie has it covered.