If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place, the question in the article's title kind of answers itself. It also makes "quiet quitting" seem almost the right thing to do: doing only the least possible to advance your company's goals while keeping both your job and your sanity, hoping that you will one day be offered a buyout package and then maybe find something more fulfilling...

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Lammy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place

“Night must fall, now! Darker! — darker!”

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marginalia_nu 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A counterpoint would be that you don't really ever see investment bankers reacting in this fashion.

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pseudalopex 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You don't really ever see investment bankers reacting how?

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Gud 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because engineers and investment bankers are wired differently.

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marginalia_nu 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG.

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pastel8739 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Aren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people?

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asdff 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Absolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life.

	▲	brewdad 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.

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consensus1 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Having done both I would say not by much