| ▲ | martin-t 15 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I had a broadly similar transition in feeling about my work. It's not about how much I get paid. It's about realizing how much of the value I produce goes to me and how much goes to the owner class. At least I never worked in a big corporation and I always had the ability to do work that directly benefited people using my code. But I still saw too much of the "I built this company" self-congratulatory BS from people who just shuffled money while doing 0 actual work. I don't think ownership is theft, I just think it's distributed wrongly - to people who have money instead of to people who do work. See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826823 | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | agumonkey 15 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
even though my above message wasn't much about the corporate leeches, i did experience the fun of being my own boss in a way during covid doing mini gigs directly with people there's a blend of "i'm my own man": i get the money and handle the responsibility on my own and it's thrilling feeling i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut, but there's a kind of pleasure to also do your own business for a while | |||||||||||||||||
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