I have come to the realization that Steve Yegge sucks. Early in my career I idolized the guy for his blog posts, and I played Wyvern in middle school and loved it - but the guy's twitter activity, and some of his writings I came accross recently paint him as a mean, arrogant, hypocritical, exclusionary, human-rights-not-giving-a-fuck-about societally clueless shitty tech person stereotype.
He's recently taken to loving hard on Amazon, check out this tweet: https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1371572461624463360 . I guess in his old age and wealth, he forgot that he hated it when he worked there because of how they treat people.
In his recent tirades against Google, he focuses on one thing and one thing only - market dominance and bottom line. He keeps going out against Google because they "aren't innovating anymore" and "have grown fat and lazy" and looks jealously at Amazon and all of the "innovation" they have. Anyone familiar with Amazon knows that they are not a smart company. They take the good ideas and innovations of other companies, organize them well from a business perspective, and exploit their workers maximally to scale their business and achieve market dominance. What Steve Yegge is endorsing when he endorses Amazon is their ability to take other people's ideas and turn them into engines of exploitation of engineers and warehouse workers. He doesnt care about any of Amazon's human rights abuses. He doesn't care about any of Google's human rights abuses either - he only cares about these corporations ability to exploit people for profit.
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