NON print version:
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/nancy-pearcey/drug-fueled-sex-laced-parties-silicon-valley
Saw a documentary about the salad days of Atari in the early 80’s.
Drugs, booze and easy women were apparently key recruiting tools to land tech talent.
“Hey, there are girls here. And they’re actually TALKING to us!”
I gotta admit, I am (now past tense) one of those who thought they mostly were as the article described - intelligent workaholics who had no time and little interest in frequent drug laced orgies.
Shouldn’t that be Sex-Fueled, Drug-Laced Parties of Silicon Valley?
these mandatory ‘parties’ apply to many, many American male and female employees for sure
the communist Chinese workers usually refuse to participate, they are still kept on the payroll because the corporations import them to pay them less than American workers
“How Many Licks Does It Take?”..
For a Charms Blow Pop?
All this for a hit of dopamine and endorphins. A GREAT hit, but still just a hit if there’s no love behind it
I may be a prude, but in my 30 years in the software industry in Seattle, I never saw any of this.
Okay, at one company, I knew of two women who were sleeping around. But that’s all, ever. Pretty low incidence, I’d say.
Well, except for the Gay Company. “The Boys” had their weekends on the boat.
I am stunned, we know Hollyweird was a cesspoom but I had not idea about Sillycone Valley. While the rest of us in the real world got all sorts of training and hoped we never got a call from HR because you looked at someone greater than 9 seconds, they were having Roman Orgies and worse. Where was Orkah last night, did she forget about this Vanity Fair Article or is she hoping for their Money when she runs. Hypocrites they all are, Her, HollyWeird and High Tech...
I get a feeling there is a dichotomy in Silicon Valley as with other industries. The executive class that does all of the things discussed and are on the “inside” and the others who are doing most of the day-day work outside of sales and ‘strategy’.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum
Money is power and the both together are the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world. They are also very corrupting.
Throughout history hedonistic debauchery has followed the acquisition of great wealth. America is more prosperous but less moral.It is no a good omen. No culture has survived long when their citizens openly embrace decadence.
Find any bastion of liberal dominance and you will find misogyny, drugs, pedophilia, racism and debauchery.
i am shocked, shocked that sex occurs in silicone alley.
omg omg omg lol
(full disclosure: i was a nerd in high school)
I heard that this nonsense was coming to SV to use as a hammer to put more women and minorities in as CEO’s.
I asked the person who told me...”Have you ever been to Silicon Valley?”
Of course she said “No”
SV is probably the hardest, most expensive, most difficult place to work on the planet.
Available men to women ratio is probably close to 20-1
If you are a woman and want to marry a rich guy, this is the place to be.
If you are a single guy expecting to find love, good luck to that.
All you are going to find is a very expensive divorce and being forced to sell your very expensive home.
There are exception of course but they are very rare.
“Women in the tech industry often feel compelled to attend to get ahead in their careers. But the reality is that joining the party often stalls their careers, as they are reduced to sex objects instead of respected as whole persons. Progress? More like regress.”
What gives? I thought all this sort of thing got left behind after the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s. You’ve come a long way, baby, right back to where you were in 1970.
Hey to disappoint....this ain’t news
Shocking to think that the people who thought up and sponsor Burning Man would be into drugs and sex in a big way, isn’t it?