Because you won't be rewarded with money and influence while still having the same risks of layoffs.

At this point you're better off working on your own thing because the company is usually, always with few exceptions mind you, a dishonest actor that is openly hostile.

The elites can't blame the state of the world on workers when they've created out hellscape of treadmills to delusion and abandonment.

Yep. The only reward in a place that doesn’t care is time.

I am in a proper place now, but I regret not getting a second job in my previous fintech job.

Why do you feel the need to work a second job, why would that be better? Wouldn't you rather be a part of your local community and put effort there rather than a private enterprise?

Two jobs pay two salaries.

There's more to life than working. Why do you feel it's necessary to work two jobs in an industry that typically pays more than the median home income in 99% of cities in the US?

There’s more to work than getting a salary.

Yes but wouldn't you rather get this through your community, family, and friends? You know the things that don't have dominion over your ability to survive?

Not necessarily.

What can I say, I enjoy programming and making stuff with a group.

Yeah, that's also an option.

If you dig down deep enough it’s always about valuing money over humans.

I think if you go even deeper: it's that humans primitively require novel and emotional experiences, it got us out of the cave. These systems are a way to generate.

I’d like to dig down deep enough that we reach causal explanations.

Yeah and if you’re going by market share that easily puts Chrome in the $100billion range.

Obviously there are massive profits to be made from private browsers.

Really interesting how the poster gets very defensive when rightfully called out on it too.

We’re going to see similar emotional outbursts in the future. Probably going to need new strategies to convince people why they are wrong. Even harder when the parrot says they’re actually right.

Having something shoved in your face because you bought the snake oil is definitely one take.

If you talk to workers being forced to use these tools you come away with a different conclusion.

It wasn’t their money, why would they care? I mean that’s how the system is designed and the outcomes it generates.

What VC backed companies take bootstrapping seriously? It’s mostly growth achieved via money not sustainable business plans.

Truly the darkest timeline.

The world didn’t really change for vast sums of time. A European peasant in 800 in France would have a very similar life if you put them in the year 1400 in France.

1000 years from now, i don't think we'll be talking about how today's social media changed the world in the same way we'll talk about the agricultural and societal revolutions we've seen during that time.

Why not? How else do you get these skills without doing it?

Job / Position description means something more... It means that your expected to do the task and perform well at it or you will be let go.

Generally you don't put those skills in a Junior PD, but you would expect a Junior to take on these tasks if they hope to progress. The Mid level PD would have it listed and as the junior shows they can meet each and every additional skill, the option of a promotion becomes available.

None of this seems hard for a junior dev tho... it just takes time, which I'm assuming the others workers don't really have with more pressing matters making this a great issue for juniors to grit their teeth on.

Note the words "on their own". They would be paired with a more experienced dev to collaborate with.

That seems self-selected and biased toward their own experiences.

When I was a junior I was allowed and given free reign to design the test system for the product and implement a design system for the frontend team.

Junior doesn't mean stupid, it just means less experience. How else do you expect people to gain experience if you don't give them basic independent projects?

Do you happen to now if France has public jobs for software devs or is it more like a governmental agency (which I guess is also a public sector job but feels different)?

AFAK each agency/entity manages its staff and can hire accordingly.

For the big project, my mental image is a public call for proposal, followed by one of the bigger groups (e.g. Cap Gemini) coming up with an initial solution that gets deployed. From there it becomes a mix of the public agency staff doing the day to day operation and maintenance, potentially including small bug fixes and updates, and external contracting again for wider range feature additions or changes like system wide security compliance.