Title: 	I am an american CS student that goes to (a lot) of hackathons.
The purpose of this post is to get feedback&#x2F;opinions from people that are outside the &quot;Hackathon Hackers&quot; bubble to determine whether or not my rant is founded and if the issues I am highlighting are characteristic of the tech industry.<p>It bothers me to see how obsessed with success this generation of &quot;hackers&quot; seems to be. I have met people who were justifying censorship, population control and unfair business practices because they could benefit from them someday. I was expecting a little more regard to civil liberties and ethics from students and so called &quot;hackers&quot;.<p>People win by making &quot;cool&quot; apps (Uber for X) whereas technical hacks are totally ignored.<p>I am glad that people are motivated to succeed but this lead to some of them taking themselves very seriously. Often to the expense of ethics.<p>&quot;There is such ignorance in this world about who we are. We are not criminals. We are innovators. We create things. We change the world.[...]&quot;<p>And this is one example among many other from a guy who has never engineered anything. Weeks are spent planning for their new &quot;great project&quot; with at the end little to no execution.<p>Students who believe to be 1000x SE because they can stick two APIs together and use bootstrap end-up to be very condescending older engineers.<p>This &quot;bro&quot;&#x2F;&quot;my framework is the best&quot;&#x2F;&quot;Make money fast&quot; culture that stinks a little bit IMO.<p>Hackathons are great to try out new technologies, meet new people and outreach to demographics that are traditionally under-represented in CS but I don&#x27;t like where this is headed.<p>Like HS there is &quot;cool kids&quot; who are &quot;Student Entrepreneur&quot; or &quot;Innovator, UX Artist blah blah&quot;, &quot;RoR Genius&quot; etc... and the rest of the world.<p>My apologies if this post is a little bit ranty, I hope to get other perspectives on this.
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