> All I could comprehend when I finished was "100 people work themselves to emotional exhaustion so American mega corp can retain monopoly status". I see nothing of valor, just a strange subculture that people are willing to sacrifice themselves to for reasons that make no sense to me.
Or so those people could work hard for 5-10 years instead of working hard for 40+ years like most people do. Microsoft employees have been paid very well for a long time and the stock compensation they received in the early to mid 1990s was exceptionally lucrative.
The most important part of what you said, is "make no sense to me." It's tremendously wonderful that we don't get to dictate what other people choose to do with their lives and time.
It's perfectly ok to be enamored with something like new Internet tech circa 1995, want to work in a segment that excites you, work exceptionally hard for three or five years, and then change out of that work to something more routine and less demanding.
Or so those people could work hard for 5-10 years instead of working hard for 40+ years like most people do. Microsoft employees have been paid very well for a long time and the stock compensation they received in the early to mid 1990s was exceptionally lucrative.
The most important part of what you said, is "make no sense to me." It's tremendously wonderful that we don't get to dictate what other people choose to do with their lives and time.
It's perfectly ok to be enamored with something like new Internet tech circa 1995, want to work in a segment that excites you, work exceptionally hard for three or five years, and then change out of that work to something more routine and less demanding.