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How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech

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College campuses are filled with entrepreneurship LARPers. These students, inundated in startup mythology through their teens, look at creating startups like religion. To achieve salvation is ‘starting a (venture backed) company one day’. Influencer VCs are the saints that will help them get there. They obsessively read the same 10 books, quote the same people, and consume the same information. An excruciatingly small section of the internet is both their Bible and their Church. They rediscover normal concepts like friend groups as heavily corporatised ‘communities’. Somehow, they’re all mildly discontent with life. They’re always thinking- thinking about ‘what to work on’, where to live, but there’s often a curious lack of doing to match it. They look down at almost everything institutional, but it’s unclear whether this is an aesthetic and logical conclusion, or merely because they can’t seem to find their place in them themselves. I’ve seen this weird young-person-in-tech angst freq

How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech Sarv Nov 27, 2022 70 1 2 Share DALL-E: “A person being slowly crushed by the weight of an ever-growing pile of tech products, studio ghibli, hayao miyazaki” College campuses are filled with entrepreneurship LARPers. These students, inundated in startup mythology through their teens, look at creating startups like religion. To achieve salvation is ‘starting a (venture backed) company one day’. Influencer VCs are the saints that will help them get there. They obsessively read the same 10 books, quote the same people, and consume the same informat

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