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It's not a pipeline. 2018 and 2025 guys either had 2014 guy killed or they ruined his life and forced him into suicide.

RIP Aaron Swartz

Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.

We... used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.

Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:

Fucking Corpo Scum.

"I want to change the world with this tech"

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"3 billion you say? The company is yours!"

People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.

Its ai generated sir but it kinda checks out.

Money .... it's always about the money and power

I'm sure there are tech bros out there that we will never hear about or see or know about .... those are the ones who just want to do tech stuff and not care about anything else

The ones we do hear about who become billionaires were only ever in it for the money and power

Beware the AI slop Pipeline

I'm going in the opposite direction.

I'm recognizing how much we've been herded like sheep just to make rich people richer, and I'm fighting back in the ways that I can.

The suit infestation of tech

2030: By the implementation of AI, the orphan crushing machine can now process 35% more biomass per hour, providing a sustainable power source to our server parks

The first one is a hacktivist, the second one is an OSS dev, and the third is a tech bro. So not really a pipeline since there are still hacktivists, OSS devs, ans tech enthusiasts (also most tech bros started in finance)

Hardstuck 2014. I'm not changing

I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that's what the actual "tech bros" want.

This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

Why is pipeline being used for everything now? This is progression. Not pipeline.

I'm so sick of seeing this exact fucking face and facial expression on everything. please just use ms paint to shoddily squiggle a matchstick man, at least it will have personality.

Tech bruh

Ai slop

TIL there were no tech bros before 2014.

IDK what this meme is trying to say. Its making some leaps.

I feel like most of tech had already sold out by 2014. Really by the late aughts it seemed to be all gone; that was when apple and its philosophy had taken hold. Not that apple was the only force in that direction, it just felt like the apotheosis of the greedy and controlling mentality. MS had plenty of greed, but they were willing (in some circumstances) to play ball. Google seemed to love interoperability in the early-to-mid aughts, but look at it now.

Rich billionaire assholes are ruining every industry. It's not just the tech sector.

Am I stupid? Idk what the hell this is trying to say

Sorry, but I feel 2014 should be replaced with 1980, 2018 should be replaced with 2000... Maybe 1990. But the whole monetisation thing started loooonngg before 2025.

Fuck, monetizing empathy. Is that even a fucking option? Can we just buy our way out of this shithole timeline? Can Gates just write a check for 97 billion and we go back to not performing genocide bring us back out of the Jim Crow and misogynist era?

This kinda follows the same pipeline that everyone else went down on Facebook and Twitter. At one point, the internet was all about Anonymous and Zeitgeist and revolution.

Then one Arab Spring and a couple of years later, we all went from Anonymous and Zeitgeist to thinking that billionaires and businessmen are the answers to all of our problems.