You see, after the part your put in quotation marks I added on "at least to the company". This was meant to mean that the work you are doing is meaningful, but perhaps only to the company. Rather than working on a small part of a small part of a small part of the massive machine, you get to work on the entire thing because no one else is around to do it.
I really don't understand why I got downvoted for that. Not sure what part of the HN hivemind I upset with that, seems fairly uncontroversial.
> Not sure what part of the HN hivemind I upset with that
Intentionally or not, you implied that people working at big companies (which is a lot of the people here) are not doing anything meaningful.
Second, there's an immune response to this idea because it is part of the startup mythology that leads to a lot of people making economically suboptimal decisions about where to work, which is basically the whole topic we are discussing here.
You see, after the part your put in quotation marks I added on "at least to the company". This was meant to mean that the work you are doing is meaningful, but perhaps only to the company. Rather than working on a small part of a small part of a small part of the massive machine, you get to work on the entire thing because no one else is around to do it.
I really don't understand why I got downvoted for that. Not sure what part of the HN hivemind I upset with that, seems fairly uncontroversial.