As an engineering major, real engineers are easy to radicalise because a lot of them fundamentally want to make the world better with technology and then come to the startling conclusion that the places they can work will not let them.
Not the Elon Musk fanboys though, and they're not engineers, they intend to found startups and get rich quick.
You definitely have more incel types in engineering though and that's mad annoying. Business major chuds are much easier to understand than 4chan types.
The slow realisation that capitalism would never let me do the research I wanted to do is why I'm no longer a Molecular Biologist. Like fuck guys, all I ever wanted was to potter around in a lab for 60 years working on gene therapy to fight heart disease. But nah, too blue sky to get a funding round.
When I was a kid, I wanted to go into robotics when I grew up, so I could find the least enjoyable job and automate it. It seemed like the obvious thing that a person should do with their life. But misery is usually cheaper than robots, and when it's not automation just means the workers lose their jobs and some asshole gets rich.
It’s really interesting how far right most engineering majors are. Got into an argument with one last year who insisted that all muslims are terrorists and that christianity will save the world. Also thought Bernie was a commie that was gonna kill us all with breadlines lol.
For most of them though, I blame the fact that engineering programs are designed to funnel people into the military industrial complex. Their world views are explicitly sculpted through lack of philosophy classes, environmental/climate change classes, etc.
Business majors did far less than engineering majors in the pursuit of me becoming a maoist.
As an engineering major, real engineers are easy to radicalise because a lot of them fundamentally want to make the world better with technology and then come to the startling conclusion that the places they can work will not let them.
Not the Elon Musk fanboys though, and they're not engineers, they intend to found startups and get rich quick.
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i signed up to upbear the aero part. no words, just depression.
The struggle shall end one day friend.
Er... 5? News to me, I’m pretty convinced that number is 0.
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You definitely have more incel types in engineering though and that's mad annoying. Business major chuds are much easier to understand than 4chan types.
Oh yes, libertarian tech bros
The slow realisation that capitalism would never let me do the research I wanted to do is why I'm no longer a Molecular Biologist. Like fuck guys, all I ever wanted was to potter around in a lab for 60 years working on gene therapy to fight heart disease. But nah, too blue sky to get a funding round.
Mood.
When I was a kid, I wanted to go into robotics when I grew up, so I could find the least enjoyable job and automate it. It seemed like the obvious thing that a person should do with their life. But misery is usually cheaper than robots, and when it's not automation just means the workers lose their jobs and some asshole gets rich.
I'm a computer engineer and holy fuck were my classmates insanely chudsy
It’s really interesting how far right most engineering majors are. Got into an argument with one last year who insisted that all muslims are terrorists and that christianity will save the world. Also thought Bernie was a commie that was gonna kill us all with breadlines lol.
For most of them though, I blame the fact that engineering programs are designed to funnel people into the military industrial complex. Their world views are explicitly sculpted through lack of philosophy classes, environmental/climate change classes, etc.