[PianoGym]

I want you to know. You're not alone, and I feel the same things.

Hacker News is not the place to go if you're looking for cohorts who feel the same thing.

People on this website are ... I don't know the right word, but I think the best way to phrase it is - lacking the sensitivity and awareness to really step back and evaluate if technology has been making the world a better place. This isn't to say technology can't do that, but what the human race has been doing with technology really is a bummer. We have every means to push ourselves forward, step up, and take care of each other. Hell we're post scarcity! But everyone is running around doing VC this, startup that, and how everything is going to be changed my "my really great idea" which is stupid. I had a brother-in-law, an executive of his company bragging about how he was using some of the smartest people he ever knew solve logistic problems for maximizing profit in the stupidest ways. I reply to every recruiter explicitly asking them how each role they're offering is genuinely helping the world a better place. I explicitly go out of my way asking for jobs to fight climate change and no one responds.

Personally I am confounded by the money making impetus of everyone.

I FEEL exactly how you're feeling, and I'm not sure how to get away from it or fix the state of things.

A lot of people will come out of the woodwork and provide thought-terminating statements like "be the change you want to see", or "be the light", or anything else that's really meant as a way to disengage the discussion without really addressing the issues. And let me tell you I have put my best foot forward in my personal endeavors to create solutions and tools that really try to help others out. But at the end of the day, we all rely on each other to be the communities that help each other, and it's not up to one person to carry that weight. We all need to recognize that this isn't right, and the direction we're headed isn't right. And, this is completely ignoring the big elephant in the room that despite all the technological "advancements" we're making, the planet is burning alive, with us on it, and we really won't have anything in the coming years.

I'm rambling, and I don't have a solution or words of advice. But, I want you to know you're not alone. Feel free to reach out if you're ever looking for a cohort to chat with. We can be grumpy together.