there's no light at the end of the tunnel...

[rone]

... but i hear the train coming anyway.

My career is stuck in a bad spot, where i can't afford to work for a place whose output isn't objectionable (like a university or a non-profit organization), so i have to take a job with companies that produce abhorrent things, like social networks or online ad frameworks, and are either megacorporations ridden with politics and bureaucracy, or are minuscule startups run by delusional megalomaniacs who overwork everyone, or they're midsized companies run by decent, smart people and therefore are a target ripe for acquisition and reëducation.  And i'm still too far off my winemaking certificate to seriously enact a career change (and we're back to the "can't afford" part, anyway).  The small business is already a vanishing thing, but it's practically mythic in this industry.  I wonder whether there's anything that can be done about it.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Their end product is to get a bunch of people to sign up so they can be targets of advertising, or in Visible Path's case, so they can be targets of sales and marketing.

[mononeuron.livejournal.com]

> Their end product

That's so 30-year-fixed. Quaint!

The real end product is massive overextension, huge securitization collapse, world-wide financial uncertainty vis-a-vis american banking and monetary stability and general mayhem of the "Evil Liberal" [dm] brigade.

But it could be worse.

(It can always get worse.)