7% might as well be the difference between any two colleagues, to be honest.

> Poor life choices can be consequences of poor upbringing, mental health, or simply bad luck.

You forget stupidity and ignorance. Sometimes people make poor life choices because they're stupid or ignorant (or both).

Yeah sure poor life choices can be consequences of poor upbringing, mental health, or simply bad luck, but that's not always the case.

Regarding this specific piece of writing and as a tech person myself, i wonder: why does this person not have some safety net savings?

Having worked in the highest-paying city (San Francisco) in the highest paying state (California) in the richest nation (USA)... Why didn't this guy build his own safety net?

> Everyone does drugs or alcohol, even the pope, even Jesus himself.

This phrase is only true because you include alcohol, otherwise it would be false. Not everybody does drugs.

And alcohol tends to be one of the top "people disabler" in the world

> This post reads to me like someone suffering from mental illness and/or personality disorder.

Sometimes people are just assholes, eh.

I don't have the data to say this is the case, but "just being an asshole" is a circumstance that is often under-considered.

That's the problem with personality disorders - we call them "disorders", but they're also fundamentally a part of someone's "personality", i.e. relatively unchangeable behavioral characteristics. It's hard to draw a clear line between "insufferable asshole" and "borderline/narcissistic/histrionic personality disorder".

Variations of this already happened, however: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-ferrari-hit-the-brak...

> The question is: what do they expect those companies to do?

All companies (not just tech companies) always comply with whoever is currently in charge. A business just cannot operate without complying with the law.

People tend to forget that, and also people ultimately tend to pick the fat paycheck over the ideals.

It's an ironical recurrence: tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.

> tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.

Of all the hypocrisies that are common in our industry, it's this one that I find the most offensive.

As usual, i'd take this kind of articles with the proverbial grain of salt. There always are a number of workers that are frustrated and very vocal about that, and a number of workers that are not frustrated at all but aren't vocal about it.

Media has a tendency to exaggerate one of the two numbers.

But which one is the largest? We don't know for sure and we can't hardly know.

Also, why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?

> why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?

In this case, it's because those tech workers are the ones whose work is being used to advance these horrific outcomes.

While true, what you describe is very unlikely to happen and most definitely won’t happens on systems where i’m the only users.