[goaaron]

This completely misses the disturbing horror aspect of the show.

[pavlov]

Severe enough burnout at a startup (or crunch-mode game studio, or similar) can give you a reasonable simulacrum of that.

Come in, go home, come back. Did something actually happen that wasn’t work? Unclear.

[mptest]

>come in, go home, come back.

https://youtu.be/2n34NrkDlZk

this felt germane

[trhway]

to me it isn't about burnout, etc. To me the show is a metaphor for "nothing personal just business" - for how people may turn off that human personality inside them and do whatever is "just doing my job/following the order".

[manapause]

That’s funny because I thought they captured it perfectly. Cults can be blissful places; the experience and friends I’ve made amidst the madness I’ve experienced in startups made me stronger in the end.

[ethbr1]

Yeah, to me the show was much more about how every modern real company secretly wished they could sever their employees, and how much they'd abuse that power dynamic if they actually had it.

Work without workers? Perfect!

[inopinatus]

ah yes the pineapple