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…

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    4 months ago

    You haven’t named a decent person in your post.

    The Google founders are simply more secretive in their lifestyles compared to Musk. They dropped the “Don’t Be Evil” motto a long time ago.

    • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
      304·
      4 months ago

      Bill Gates, a decent person? LMAO is OP literally a kid or something.

      Americans are the most propagandized people in the world and simultaneously genuinely believe they are not propagandized, it’s incredible.

      • curry@programming.devEnglish
        17·
        4 months ago

        It’s incredle how public perceptions change, huh? Bill Gates was considered the devil back when MS was steamrolling against open source software.

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          61·
          4 months ago

          MS’s patent protection racket and monopoly practices continue. They have had no conversion, they are just adapting. Buying GitHub and LinkedIn to stay relevant. WSL and VSCode are to slow the bleed of developers away from their platform and tools. Azure Linux is because they have to. They are under pressure by the market and because all the bright young things coming in will all want Linux. They are still a closed source company trying to get people stuck into their webs and paying.

          • curry@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Agreed, the foss-friendly image is just a facade. MS is never going to commit to open source as it directly threatens their bloodline.

            • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              They should be made to open Office. Too much is in those formats for a for profit company to own the reference implementation. Let alone for that reference implementation to be closed.

              Reading about this “standard” makes me angry every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML

              Google and Apple and Amazon and Facebook are all tech bastards too. But Microsoft has not gone away or been solved.

              • curry@programming.devEnglish
                2·
                4 months ago

                If I had a dime for every time I had to struggle because of subtle rendering changes between libreoffice and ms office over a single ooxml doc…

                • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  Your not meant to be able to render it outside of MS software. The whole ISO thing was high level game to make a monoply look like a standard. It’s a super long standard with closed binary bit that were meant to be temporary. It only got through at due to outside corruption. Governments are as much at fault as MS for being a sleep at the wheel of stopping monopolies and keep the market functional. ISO is broken if something can be a standard where the reference implementation is closed, let alone have any closed bits.

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        But you see he invest 0.1% of their money to save some people in the world, sometimes. He is so generous.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      Honestly, Google back in the day was a great company. They were focused on putting the best product for consumer, supported open standards, kept ads at a minimum… A bit like Valve today. They really were “good guys”.

      Then I’m not sure what happened, they stopped caring and left the MBAs in charge maybe.