Just a reminder that the following are inconsistent (and both views go basically unchallenged on HN)
- Tech is exploitative, underpaying and overworking naive employees.
- Tech is dominated by privileged White/Asian males who exclude women and minorities from what would otherwise be a great opportunity.
(If you take a Marxist view that attaches a ridiculously high value to what an employee is worth, then these views can be consistent, in the sense that you can label almost any employment arrangement as exploitation. But I would guess most people on HN subscribe to the (correct) market oriented view which defines exploitation much more narrowly as getting a person to accept something worse than their outside options by the emotional appeal of the job. If startups were really duping White males into working for them instead of a better paid and lower stress banking job or whatever, someone who really cares about women and minorities would presumably tell them to steer clear of this exploitation).
- Tech is exploitative, underpaying and overworking naive employees.
- Tech is dominated by privileged White/Asian males who exclude women and minorities from what would otherwise be a great opportunity.
(If you take a Marxist view that attaches a ridiculously high value to what an employee is worth, then these views can be consistent, in the sense that you can label almost any employment arrangement as exploitation. But I would guess most people on HN subscribe to the (correct) market oriented view which defines exploitation much more narrowly as getting a person to accept something worse than their outside options by the emotional appeal of the job. If startups were really duping White males into working for them instead of a better paid and lower stress banking job or whatever, someone who really cares about women and minorities would presumably tell them to steer clear of this exploitation).