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It seems to be the nature of companies getting bigger and older. When I was 10 I wanted to work for Microsoft when I grew up - this was 1991, when Microsoft products were the clear leaders in most PC software markets but they had yet to seem like the evil monopolist they would become. By the time I was in college, I was running Linux on my laptop just so that I didn't support the evil empire. By 27 I was working for Google, which was the hip non-evil place to be at the time.

Go get involved in crypto and find some projects that are actually building stuff instead of pumping the price. That's the historical analogy - IMHO we're right about at 2002 in the cycle, after the new technology bubble bursts but before anyone knows who the winners will be, or if they even exist. If you're successful people will hate you anyway because that's the nature of success, but at least you can get a decade or two of feeling like your work means something in before that.



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