The biggest factor for me is really simple the benefit of investing in my office.
I can now spend my money on my home office and build it as i like it for me and as long as i can work remote, im getting those benefits directly and i'm no longer bound by a company because of those benefits.
I got myself a standing desk at home with a nice real wood top, which is awesome.
I haave to have a work space at home anyway for taxes, learning/writing, playing games, doing something with pictures etc. Now i have a great home office and a great private 'home office'?
And yes holy shit finally a clean nice bathroom i like going to.
Funny enough, while i have worked in a company like HubSpot and we did those excersizes and stuff, we were just a normal company.
In my current company, all those culture things are also communicated, they are just not a blog post on the internet and they do not feel like a cult :)
Its actually nothing i want anymore; There are many reasons why people earn a certain amount of money but being involved in that process in a company wide group setting was horrible annoying and didn't make me feel any better.
And on my salary discussion, it was mentioned what extra perks i got from the company and that amounted to a certain amount which suddenly meant "Look we give you less money because we think it increases the social factor if we force you to be in our company on a day with everyone else to eat together etc. in a forced social setting, which was nice don't get me wrong, by you paying indirectly.
And thats the issue, either the company is paying for it, or you don't do it.
At the end of the day, you can easily find nice people you wana hang around with while you work in plenty of normal companies. Just make sure you find a good Team.
And yes all those things they do it for 2 reasons: 1. keeping employees 2. getting new employees. Being a little bit of edgy might just be cheaper than paying head hunters and if you can take unlimited good people but you just don't get them, every person going through your door because of all this hipness, is one person more earning money for you.
When you refer to Gattaca: it doesn't reflect our society very well.
While i like that movie very much, he still got on a spaceship having much worse physical abilities than all the others of his crew.
Also in this specific topic, i'm not talking about a human who is able to overcome most/all of his obstacles given at birth. I'm talking about me and all other humans who are not able to do so.
I would also argue that on an ethical level, you would require to make sure that every new human being has the best chance our society can provide for him/her. Like if technology is so far advanced, that you can just scan an embryo, you see why it would become much smaller or way too tall which would lead to medical issues and you could fix it with a press of a button, you would need to do it.
I would argue that not doing this, is the same thing as denying a preterm baby an incubator.
" The other question related to the beginning of human life is even more difficult to answer. It is the fertilization of the egg cells; but a conglomeration of cells in the early phase of pregnancy can hardly be characterized as a human person. The human identity, personality, and worth is associated with the functioning of the brain, so only when the brain is fully developed can there be any talk about an unborn human being." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7476658/
Just because you say 'It is absolutly killing a human' your statement is wrong.
There are not a lot of those companies which are that big.
You also might not want to manage that many it experts for your infrastructure or you are not able to get them.
Also if your companies product is very technical, i would argue that those companies are much better equiped doing it by themselfs then others.
Nonetheless, it also doesn't need to be all or nothing. You can easily combine a MultiCloud approach.
Build only the stuff which is easy to build and costs a lot on cloud yourself. I would say Buildsystems or compute instances are good candidates.
Like i could imagine putting netflix authentication system on a cloud provider while doing the compute stuff in my own data center and building the CDN myself.
Our society defines it as okay. You apparently don't agree with this but you are not the majority here.
No human aborts a fetus for fun.
My wife and i lost our 'fetus' on the 3 month mark. There have been a lot of thoughts about this experience and lots of emotions. And i would probably abort a fetus with Down Syndrom.
No one is doing an abortion easy. It is never easy for whatever reason and its not your place to criticize it when its not your responsibility.
You have to understand one thing: People are able to seperate the wish of not having a kid with down syndrom from other human beings who have down syndrom.
Are extreme religous people okay with any abortion? Then there is no tension for them either and as far as i know, those are the more/real prominent examples of groups who saying something about this topic at all
I can now spend my money on my home office and build it as i like it for me and as long as i can work remote, im getting those benefits directly and i'm no longer bound by a company because of those benefits.
I got myself a standing desk at home with a nice real wood top, which is awesome.
I haave to have a work space at home anyway for taxes, learning/writing, playing games, doing something with pictures etc. Now i have a great home office and a great private 'home office'?
And yes holy shit finally a clean nice bathroom i like going to.