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The hacker ethos and "information wants to be free" of the '80s-'90s was drowned out by a flood of coders in the '10s-early '20s whose only creed was FYPM and "what's the minimum career effort for the fattest paycheck?"


// whose only creed was FYPM

Good. It took a long while for ICs to be paid more than 'management' in the US. It's still a hard-fought battle here.

// a flood of coders in the '10s-early '20s whose only creed was FYPM and "what's the minimum

I wonder what possibly could have happened in that timeframe?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...


FYPM — Fuck You Pay Me




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