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12/30/2021 02:47:00 PM
I was deep in the woke capitalism machine. I grew up in an economically depressed town in the Midwest but I'd "raised myself by my bootstraps" to get working in silicon valley on health data science. Then I switched jobs to an insurance company just before the pandemic hit. We were worse than useless and actually hindered progress by public health officials to get data. We were making mid six figures and we got sent home to play on our laptops while actual healthcare workers had to keep the system running. And while working from home, a business team approached me with an idea to build an algorithm to convince doctors to stop pursuing treatment when it was "too late." But it was obviously about the insurance company making more money. That was when I realized where my paycheck was actually coming from. And after that it became really clear that our whole system was set up like that, just to exploit the people doing the real work so the top 10% can live an easy life. So I walked away from that and now I just really want to dismantle it.