Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

by stego-tech • 1 year ago

258 197 1 year ago

It did not even occur to me that it was all a scam, that everyone else knew it was all a scam and the actual point was to get rich.

I feel that as a GenX'er I should now dispense some wisdom to Millenials and Zoomers about life, but I just don't have the energy. Read Gaetano Mosca.

usrnm• 1 year ago

Millenials are not young anymore, haven't been for some time. We know.

officeplant• 1 year ago

Millennials are not young anymore

As a middle of the pack Millennial (late 30s) Its wild to think I'm older than my Dad was when he introduced me to Slashdot as a young teen.

mrweasel• 1 year ago

Some of us are in our 40s. We know how shit works. Almost everyone can fall into the trap of telling yourself that "it's not that bad", "this is how it's suppose to work" or "If it was that bad it would be illegal/have been shutdown", only to later get wiser and see it scam, fraud or just the darker side of how some companies operate.

rdlw6• 1 year ago

Thank you o wise one, may you rest and gather enough mana to dispense your wisdom next time you comment.

ZephyrBlu• 1 year ago

Radical transparency doesn't mean you get to say negative things.

Lmao. This level of cognitive dissonance is always incredible to me.

constantcrying4• 1 year ago

As the author himself points out, nobody but him believed the corporate nonsense. This isn't cognitive dissonance, this is "You actually really believe these things?"

voidUpdate• 1 year ago

*herself

roenxi4• 1 year ago

That isn't cognitive dissonance - it is doublespeak. Cognitive dissonance is when someone's mind unexpectedly encounters an internal contradiction and goes haywire trying to match assumptions up.

Old mate manager doesn't have any internal mental contradictions. They are explaining that the words have one meaning in the dictionary and another meaning when used together in the workplace. Well understood thing that happens everywhere.

Zardoz842• 1 year ago

Like the old Simpsons episode : Marge, there is the truth and the truth

pd: I watched it in Spanish, so perhaps it is different in English.

dublinben• 1 year ago

Coming from their manager, I suspect it could have also been meant as:

"Radical transparency doesn't mean you get to say negative things."

udev40964• 1 year ago

What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and destroying?

Are you serious? You complain about the 2008 crisis and capitalism and yet completely neglect the true purpose of crypto? No wonder you drank the Google kool-aid

waterlaw• 1 year ago

What's the true purpose of crypto? It can be used to escape the banking system?

roenxi4• 1 year ago

Asset that can't be involuntarily taken away or printed by a government.

oldjim692• 1 year ago

the true purpose of crypt

Fraud?

udev40964• 1 year ago

Clearly there are way too many bad actors now which makes it seem like a fraud to anyone from the outside

x0x0• 1 year ago

But what about theft?

praptak• 1 year ago

Fraud is a tiny sliver and it would be unfair to judge crypto on that alone. There's also ransomware, extortion, payments for drugs and theft by North Korea hackers.

mmsc• 1 year ago

the true purpose of crypto

What's the latest version of this one these days?

Filligree• 1 year ago

“Enabling the Dark Economy” is one I’ve heard.

jes51992• 1 year ago

avoiding monetary control policies?

chc42• 1 year ago

It does seem slightly silly that a through-line of the article is disgust at societal power dynamics and surveillance, and then not recognize that Bitcoin and other proto-cryptocurrencies were invented by anarchist cypherpunks as a solution to the same thing in the monetary system.

mavhc2• 1 year ago

Did it work?

windowshopping• 1 year ago

The author of this article is not slamming the authors of the protocol. They're criticizing what it became and what it's used for now. There's a difference.

You can not seriously claim that this modern incarnation of Bitcoin is what was originally intended. That would be ridiculous.

meesles• 1 year ago

Very well-written. My main takeaway and constant reminder is that our privilege, no matter the size, usually comes at someone's expense.

oulipo3• 1 year ago

Exactly, and it's funny because here everytime we discuss the impact of AI on vulnerable population, be it for taking jobs / increasing CO2 consumption / destabilizing politics, there's always a rich white guy with his cushy programmer job saying "but I don't understand, to me all this AI stuff is nice, I can work even more comfortably"...

SpicyLemonZest• 1 year ago

I don't think I have ever seen someone on HN dismiss concerns about AI's impact on other people by saying it's good for them personally. I think you have a stereotype of a white guy with a cushy programmer job in your head, and you hear him saying this when other people of various races say other things.

MisterTea• 1 year ago

there's always a rich white guy with his cushy programmer job saying "but I don't understand, to me all this AI stuff is nice, I can work even more comfortably"...

How do you know they are white?

jes51992• 1 year ago

Like most employees I blamed myself for not working hard enough to get good compensation

ohh. I feel like I understanding something about my peers now that I had not caught onto before

dunkelheit• 1 year ago

I just love how John Patience became Джона Пейшенса, like it is some exotic slavic woman's name.

selimthegrim• 1 year ago

Wait until you hear how USSR VLKSM used to denounce the “KLESh” in posters.

Aeroi• 1 year ago

hmm, disagree with many of the takes in here, although some sentences of insight and truth.

fsflover7• 1 year ago

Can you elaborate?

sa-code• 1 year ago

You cannot make people work for you and hoard all the profits while they are stuck with fixed salaries, without in the process developing strong feelings on why you're entitled to do that and how they deserve it actually.

I wonder why we don't see more software engineering co ops?

pclmulqdq• 1 year ago

Because people don't like risk and if they can make a boat load of money without risk they would rather do that than make 10 boat loads of money with risk.

fennecbutt2• 1 year ago

Eh it's because wealth accumulation has meant that those with money have too much money to fail, so to speak. Able to skirt legal boundaries and often push the cost onto the taxpayer.

rjbwork2• 1 year ago

A combination of a persistent strain of rugged individualist libertarian attitudes and ego. Everyone thinking we're better than everyone else and if only we could be in charge everything would be better than if those other idiots were prevents the kind of solidarity needed to do co-ops or professional associations or partnerships like lawyers.

cj• 1 year ago

Code doesn’t make engineers money.

Selling the code does.

Engineers typically aren’t very good sales people.

teaearlgraycold• 1 year ago

Why not have a marketer at the co-op?

roenxi4• 1 year ago

That is how a lot of software engineering firms run in practice - the good engineers have buy in through stock options.

A lot of engineers are replaceable though. They get less stock.

neves2• 1 year ago

Meritocracy

ujkhsjkdhf234• 1 year ago

Co-ops amplify the people problems and you are now locked in a room with people who know how to code but don't know how to make money.

bee_rider• 1 year ago

Annoyingly this is a hard concept to search because co-op is also another word for, basically, an internship.

thenthenthen• 1 year ago

Here is an example: https://autonomic.zone/

tomrod2• 1 year ago

I believe Spain does this.

JackFr3• 1 year ago

Because someone has to put up the money. And the people who put up the money want a return on it, or they will put their money somewhere else.

jeffbee5• 1 year ago

Imagine having 2 or more of the OP in the same organization, raging at each other about a tiny, perceived difference in outlook. You can easily have software engineering partnership but it's clear that a person like the OP would destroy any organization, no matter the structure, which is probably why they describe themselves as an anarchist (i.e. a person with a life-long inability to adapt to any give context).

Ylpertnodi• 1 year ago

OP would destroy any organization, no matter the structure, which is probably why they describe themselves as an anarchist (i.e. a person with a life-long inability to adapt to any give context).

Hardly 'anarchist'.

izacus• 1 year ago

Because people who would support a coop and write posts like these usually end up being disastrous company leads. Then add multiple of them and committees.

arolihas13• 1 year ago

Oh yeah the horror of not being able to go behind your boss's back in a company email. The tragedy of being ignored when bringing up office equipment in a discussion about saving costs in a tech platform. The inhumanity of having workers hired to make food and do dishes on a Friday. The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about. What a dystopia, Brazil would have been better off without Google definitely, if only they had polyamorous anarchists running things.

the_cat_kittles• 1 year ago

all the instances they discussed highlight the contrast between what google presented itself as, vs what it actually was. i dont think this person is asking for sympathy, i think they hate google for trying to pretend its anything different than any other big profit seeking enterprise. sounds like you are well on your way to the hostility the author very succinctly describes

kurthr2• 1 year ago

And yet, there are much more pernicious elements to dystopia Google has become and ways that it perpetuates them through the efforts of people just like this so that they can literally have a "free lunch". These are the type of complaints that minimize the actual failure of "don't be evil" as implemented by their very efforts. Personnel minutia distract from the Orwellian prize.

arolihas13• 1 year ago

Thank you :)

hattmall• 1 year ago

There's a quote, at least from the movie, where Zuckerberg calls people "dumb fucks." I honestly have to think the same about anyone that seriously bought into a corporation putting "do no evil" in a mission statement.

It is simply not possible to extract billions of dollars unless you have ascended above the idea of not fucking people over.

axus3• 1 year ago

Radical transparency doesn't mean you get to say negative things!

JackFr3• 1 year ago

I believe what he likely meant (though not what he said), was that radical transparency shouldn’t be taken as a license to be an asshole.

I say that as a manager of narcissistic assholes who are always “brutally honest” and feel that their honesty excuses their brutality.

Aunche3• 1 year ago

You can't have radical transparency without a blameless culture. Calling someone out in the open is in bad taste anywhere. It's also common sense. As Omar says, "If you come at the king, you best not miss." It's possible that the author really did just write an innocuous post criticizing recruiting practices, but I don't see why their the manager would single out the boss if that were the case.

jplusequalt3• 1 year ago

The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about
if only they had polyamorous anarchists running things

This comment comes off as highly reactionary.

bigstrat2003• 1 year ago

Using "reactionary" as a boo light is not a substantive comment. If you think he's wrong, argue why rather than just going "ew, right wing".

wgjordan• 1 year ago

Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

JohnMakin3• 1 year ago

found one

1oooqooq• 1 year ago

you read the whole thing taking notes and ignored the main theme? that's some bootlicking good dedication. I'm impressed.

arolihas13• 1 year ago

I didn't need to take notes. I didn't need to ignore the theme

awesomeMilou• 1 year ago

Oh yeah the horror of not being able to go behind your boss's back in a company email.

The horror of finding out that my employer lies to me and invades my basic human right to privacy, because they know they can only get what they want from me by manipulating me.

The tragedy of being ignored when bringing up office equipment in a discussion about saving costs in a tech platform.

The tragedy of pointing out, that apparently only some deverse clean water, while others don't, and having it fall on deaf ears.

The inhumanity of having workers hired to make food and do dishes on a Friday.

The inhumanity of devaluing people based on their misfortune in life, that didn't enable them to jump into a well paying tech job.

The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about.

The absolute gall of my employer to berate me about my pride, my _identity_ they find so obnoxious, only to take advantage of it once it serves their purpose.

The water purifier thing was CARTOONISHLY evil, like you took it from the fucking Fallout Universe!!!!

ricardobeat2• 1 year ago

The horror of finding out that my employer lies to me and invades my basic human right to privacy

It’s a pretty well known fact that work communication isn’t private, for auditing purposes, business continuity etc. You can always use your personal email instead.

constantcrying4• 1 year ago

What a terribly written article. I do not understand at all why you wouldn't start out by saying that you worked in Brazil for Google, instead the reader has to discover that half way in, suggesting you were in Phoenix was a really nice move to make sure that essential detail was hard to extract. There was "tea" promised but the story is literally "I was an obvious nuisance because I was the only one who believed corporate propaganda and got fired for it", how absolutely uninteresting and I do not understand why it would take this amount of space to write down.

arolihas13• 1 year ago

Didn't even get fired for it, they were laid off because of 2008!

constantcrying4• 1 year ago

Yes, although being on the "annoyed me" list of the boss likely played part in whom to fire.

monooso2• 1 year ago

I experienced no such confusion.

rdlw6• 1 year ago

It does start out by saying they worked in Brazil for Google.

The fact that Google fired me...

Normally you have to work somewhere to get fired. I suppose that's an assumption I made upon reading that part.

let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…

This article is set in Brazil, in 2007. Did you skip the introduction and then complain about the lack of an introduction?

blindriver2• 1 year ago

I feel exactly the same as you. The entire thing is horribly written and feels like they think were victimized when I can't see where they were.

breppp• 1 year ago

This kind of literary genre is popular these days and it always ends with being surprised that actions have consequences

throwaway0123_5• 1 year ago

From the second paragraph before any mention of Phoenix or Arizona:

let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007

jeffbee5• 1 year ago

Man, "bring your whole self to work" was well intentioned but ultimately a mistake. Just bring the part that knows how to program computers, and leave whatever part this is turned off from 9-5.

constantcrying4• 1 year ago

Obviously. And I do believe the same type of person who wants to "bring your whole self to work" also is the most disgusted by seeing it implemented. If there had been a culture of professionalism you obviously do not ask some random other employees about gay slang.

Ultimately work is a give and take. And it gets easier when it is clearly defined what is given and what is taken. That is what "professionalism" in a work environment is about. Pretending that work is some great family adventure can only lead to terrible results when conflict inevitably arises.

cobertos4• 1 year ago

What kind of life is that? To be a sterile, subservient entity for the majority of your existence.

Being authentic in the working world helps in so many ways. And it works when your goals and the goals of the company align. The advice to just shut up and code leads to no good outcomes for anyone.

jeffbee5• 1 year ago

Good ways to bring your unique perspective to a professional context: intervening to avoid making some users feel offended or excluded, before a project ships to those users.

Bad ways: just yammering about how you are poly, bi, trans, and a revolutionary anarchist while we are trying to finalize OKRs for the quarter.

JackFr3• 1 year ago

Your authenticity is not everyone’s authenticity.

ecshafer3• 1 year ago

Are there parts of your whole self that are not always appropriate to bring up? I sure think so. If one team mates whole self includes their support for Israel and another whole self is their support for Palestine, maybe we can leave some of these whole selfs at home, and just talk about work, and maybe how our camping trip this weekend was. People shouldn't have to be proselytized by any other people's extreme religious or political views at work.

pnathan2• 1 year ago

This isn't how people really are.

People have different presentations for different social contexts. That's typical and normal. For a working example, the social context of the marital bedroom is not the social context of the city playground where you mind your kids. Differences in clothing, actions, words.

This spans into most areas of life.

You don't have to sterilize your work life - but you do have to have _boundaries_.

Palomides• 1 year ago

be a sterile, subservient entity for the majority of your existence

yeah, having a job sucks shit, we know

most people don't have the luxury of working a job that's worth aligning with

JohnFen2• 1 year ago

To be honest, I don't even know what "bring your whole self to work" means. If it means that I need to mix my personal life with my work life or a rejection of behaving as a mature professional, then I object strongly to the idea.

tomatotomato37• 1 year ago

I always assumed "bring your whole self to work" was just a nice way to lead into "you don't need work/life balance because your work is your life"

foldr2• 1 year ago

This misses the point. Certain groups of people have always been able to bring their whole selves to work. For example, if you're straight and married with kids, there's never been a problem about casually mentioning these things to your colleagues.

In another post, you mention

Bad ways [to bring your whole self to work]: just yammering about how you are poly, bi, trans, and a revolutionary anarchist while we are trying to finalize OKRs for the quarter.

Do you know who 'yammers' most about their personal lives? Straight people with kids! It's not even close. I wish the majority of people doing the yammering were poly, bi and trans. It might be a touch less boring.

jeffbee5• 1 year ago

See, you have improperly conflated reproductive preference with sexual orientation and gender expression. That's exclusionary!

lanyard-textile• 1 year ago

My manager at Google wanted me to change my personal “about me” snippet in the introductory email he was about to send out: It needed some information about where I previously worked (which I intentionally left out — who cares?? I’m here now!)

I never really thought much of it at the time. Internalized that as “oh, I misunderstood the purpose of the email.” But it tracks with elements of OP’s story; the exposition of your identity is curated.

fsflover7• 1 year ago

Today, the concept of “spyware” has been obsoleted because every software is spyware

This is not true. Free software is not.

krapp• 1 year ago

It can be. Ubuntu is spyware according to RMS[0].

[0]https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

fsflover7• 1 year ago

Of course, it can be, but it's so easy to fix by forking that it doesn't matter, unlike with non-free software. AFAIK Pop!_OS based on Ubuntu is not spyware.

Also, Ubuntu is not free software. Only some parts of it are free.

moritonal• 1 year ago

Just a small caveat, that article was from 2012 (13 years ago). Things may have changed for the better or worse since then.

axus3• 1 year ago

Mmm. Every time I download an ISO image or clone a Git repository, there is a record

JohnFen2• 1 year ago

Free software is not.

A lot of free software is.

fsflover7• 1 year ago

Give me examples not containing proprietary bits.

bluedevilzn• 1 year ago

And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy. With no exciting research positions nor self-managed time nor compensation, what was the advantage over a high-paying job at Microsoft or IBM?

When did Google pay less than Microsoft/IBM?

esprehn• 1 year ago

I think the author is taking about Brazil? It wasn't clear to me until later in the article.

rdlw6• 1 year ago

The two-paragraph introduction explicitly places this article in Brazil in 2007

matthewaveryusa• 1 year ago

Peter Thiel said it better: https://youtu.be/gQPlhycLmMk?t=415

tomrod2• 1 year ago

Today, the concept of “spyware” has been obsoleted because every software is spyware. Google's “organising the information of the world” turned out to be indexing which Gaza families to bomb, children and all; “making money in the free market to invest in social change” was about bankrolling literal, textbook fascism. Today, for us Latinx to even briefly step in the USA, if we don't have an always-on handheld device with spyware “social media”, its absence is taken as proof of criminality. I will never visit Arizona again, and my kids will never know a world that's not like this; but for me I saw this world being forged up close and personal, deep in Mordor where the shadows lie.

This hits home.

mm263• 1 year ago

Seems overly dramatic

JohnMakin3• 1 year ago

From a place of privilege, it might seem so!

JKCalhoun• 1 year ago

Sure, to make a point though.

ranyume4• 1 year ago

Dark times when people can become "overly dramatic" for things that are essential. A relaxation, and forgotten fundamental rights. "It is what it is"

Aunche3• 1 year ago

indexing which Gaza families to bomb

Wtf does this even mean? If Hamas used Google docs to plan their attack, does that make Google guilty of killing Israeli families? Coincidentally, this sort of hyperbole always seems to end at the critic's own actions in the chain of complicity of evil. I've never heard an activist call claim that they were personally funding genocide by paying taxes.

ranyume4• 1 year ago

Israel has many ties with corporations and governments. This might be why, but I'm also not sure what the author's talking about. It would be nice to have some context.

ricardobeat2• 1 year ago

It’s a metaphor, probably referring to military contracts that have come to light: https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-mil...

Accepting a mil/gov contract is quite a few steps removed from incidental usage of google docs.

pnathan2• 1 year ago

I was a teen in the 90s, in my circles it was Understood that the data was not private.

Some of this in any case sounds like the usual "did not grow up in white collar society, got white collar job, got in trouble for violating white collar norms" that class-changers go through. Lots of !!fun!!.

I too get troubled when the operations staff get "invisible'd" - they are members of society too and should be treated with dignity. But in a tolerably decent situation, they are recognized and respected in their field as well. Even if its the evening shift to do the janitorial work. There's nothing _immoral_ about having a party and hiring some people to clean up. It's treating them as _lower_ than you that is the failure.

Anyway. There's an - as far as I know - as yet unwritten story around those of us who came from non-white collar backgrounds and found this new world confusing.

ryandrake• 1 year ago

As another poster[1] put it, it's important to remember that these white collar people's privilege often comes at the expense of others, and to not treat them like they are furniture in the background--they are people and deserve to be recognized and treated as people.

And this is true all the way up to the top! For each of the many rungs on the socio-economic totem pole, there are many people on that rung who treat everyone on rungs below them as if they're invisible robotic servants.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201256

JohnMakin3• 1 year ago

Google back then prided itself on broadcasting its Best Place To Work award, won year after year after year. Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps;

It's crazy to think about now. Google's image was a big driver in my choice to go back to school and start a tech career, my end and pretty much only goal was to work at google. I made it through several rounds of interviews and got rejected pretty late. It hurt really bad at that time, but looking back now, I think it was one of the best things that could have happened to me.

kens• 1 year ago

I was curious about Google's current Best Place to Work rating. Forbes puts Alphabet at #2, but there are competing lists and Google is #6 on some others.

https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/

webdoodle• 1 year ago

I never sold out. When I sold off the last of my web sites and domains (mostly ad driven), I only sold the web sites, and not the code that ran them. I had built a very complicated spider that scraped all the main social media sites looking for my articles, that would suggest places they weren't found that might do well. I never built an auto submit bot, but could have easily. I submitted them manually to each site, so as not to break there TOS. I'd then track the newly submitted articles and see how they would spread on social media. I built a basic visualization tool that allowed 'seeing' the way information flows in an intuitive way.

What I learned about memetics and the way information flows was incalculable, and I realized it was like holding a weapon of mass destruction. The last thing I wanted to do was allow others to understand how it worked, or how to build one. I essentially burnt what I built because I didn't want it to fall in the wrong hands.

Could someone build it themselves? Probably, but I put 15 years of my life into building it, and I did so when the Internet was still useful. I only put enough of my thought process about the system online to allude to the fact that I had built it, not enough for someone to reconstruct it. When I sold the last of the sites, I took the code offline and unplugged the hard drive and hid it.

It's been almost 6 years since then and the only companies to come close are wasting there time with LLM. I do not think the current iteration of A.I. is even close thankfully, but at some point someone is going to crack it, probably even better than I did (I had a limited budget, slow internet, and was working mostly by myself).

normie3000• 1 year ago

I love this so mysterious.

meindnoch• 1 year ago

Can't tell if schizo or not.

WesolyKubeczek• 1 year ago

Google, if you remember, was the Best Place To Work. It was very important that every promising young engineer thought of Google as the dream job where everyone is happy. Unhappiness isn't allowed. My manager was severely scolded by his manager for having dissatisfaction (gasp) within his team.

Gotta love the pure distilled dystopia concentrate here, complete with totalitarianism vibes!

QuercusMax• 1 year ago

The dictbot story's interpretation of why TVCs (that's what they were called when I was at Google; never heard "temps, part-timers, and contractors") need to be treated like second-class citizens is incorrect.

It's not because they wanted Engineers to feel like golden gods to build their egos - it's because they don't want the TVCs to be treated as employees under employment law. There was a guy who worked in the kitchens who got added to access the music room storage closet in PDX so he could keep his guitar there, and we were told he had to be removed since he was a TVC. That closet is apparently "FTEs and interns only", because if we treat our kitchen staff too well they might have to be given the same benefits as the rest of us.

It used to be possible for somebody to work their way up from the mailroom to the executive suite. This path has been deliberately destroyed because the owning class wants to divide employees into different classes.

No war but class war.

neves2• 1 year ago

The article is better than I expected. I'm about of the same age of the author and Brazilian, and I can relate to the feeling that Internet companies would improve the world

My only nitpick it to charge Google of the invisibility of maids and servants in Brazil. Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world and this is part of the country culture. Google is not guilty here.

At least we are improving. Nobody with a brain still think that techno companies and billionaires are anything more than comic book super villains.

m0llusk• 1 year ago

Started off naive and then transitioned to considering Google to be representative of all Capitalist enterprises. Progress?

awbvious• 1 year ago

I feel sad for you that are actually humans and are saying negative things against this extremely well written post.

Perhaps you are doing it out of cognitive dissonance that you could be a baddie too. Perhaps you have lost the ability to read long form, it's certainly not encouraged any more. Perhaps doing it because you are being paid to shill a narrative (I still feel bad for you).

And for those of you that are bots saying these things, I probably feel bad for the ones who programmed you.

And I feel bad for us all that it is now almost impossible to know who is human, what is paid for, and what is real discourse.

I do not think the original post was propaganda. I think this was just someone who cares and wrote something because she wanted people to care. I applaud the author. I feel good knowing that something like this got written and read and shared.

Could it be that I am wrong in my assessment that this is excellently written and negative assessments are unfounded? I could be, but I wanted to add my assessment to the fray. I identify as human and not paid to write this comment, btw.

Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

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