Now you&#x27;ve basically made people wary to respond to you in fear of being labeled commies ;)<p>HN is supposed to be a forum for entrepreneurs but many of the visitors here are hired workers doing stuff for BigCos and that means trading our ability to close tickets for money. As a junior engineer you are told: &quot;here is this nagging bug, go fix it&quot;, and as you become a senior you may hear something more glorious like: &quot;ok we are going to expand to this new market so our system needs to scale tenfold. go figure how to do it&quot; and reap some substantial material benefits along the way but it&#x27;s really the same thing. Sure the whole process requires creativity and novel ideas in the small but nobody cares about your ideas in the large. I guess much of the sympathy for the workers&#x27; ideals of old comes from growing appreciation that <i>we are in fact the lever</i> - wielding great power but unable to do something meaningful with it.<p>&quot;The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.&quot; - Jeff Hammerbacher.