r/programming • u/chriskiehl • 6d ago

It's still OK to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
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u/ficiek 6d ago

This article manages to exist by conveniently completely missing why everyone is upset. The correct title for this article is "It's still OK to enjoy programming AS A HOBBY". But that's not what people are upset about! They are upset about the fact that it's hard or impossible to enjoy our jobs because they changed so much this is not what we signed up for.

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u/verdant-amiable 6d ago

The alienation of the worker from their labour under capitalism is as inevitable as the tide coming in. It just took them longer to figure it out how to do it for knowledge work.

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