Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
I wish I could leave.<p>The tech industry nowadays is no longer about solving real-world problems and making the world a better place, instead it&#x27;s all about screwing the end user in every single way possible, whether it&#x27;s ads, stalking and privacy violations, spam (&quot;marketing&quot; as they call it) or just plain fraud where the company is happy to take the money but can&#x27;t make it right if things don&#x27;t go to plan and the customer is left holding the bag.<p>Most tech products nowadays aren&#x27;t there to solve a real problem and aren&#x27;t funded by customers buying them because they are good; instead they&#x27;re funded by some VC scum and they&#x27;re there to capture the market (or rent-seek) and prevent a <i>legitimate</i> business from starting (nobody can compete with free or below cost).<p>Technology-wise, we no longer use engineering as a means to an end to solve a business problem. Instead, engineering became its own thing and most companies encourage and reward those who opt for over-engineered solutions, which means you spend more time fighting with dozens of layers of abstractions and chasing the latest JS framework instead of actually delivering functionality. This is mostly a symptom of the previous point where showing &quot;growth&quot; and bragging about your (over) engineering is more important than actual profit.<p>Unfortunately there&#x27;s just nothing out there that pays as well so I have no choice but to tough it out.