An anonymous reader quotes an article on Vanity Fair:

Private tech companies are feeling a contraction in Silicon Valley. The funding that venture capitalists have thrown at start-ups is dwindling, in small seed rounds and mega-rounds alike. There's a new postmortem written weekly about a start-up that's run out of cash and shut its doors. Start-up executives are sobering up, realizing that their companies actually need a path to profitability. Now, not wanting to be stuck on a sinking ship, tech employees are thinking about the bubble, too, as they plan their career moves.

GOOD. (Score:3, Insightful)

by Thud457 (234763) on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:49AM (#51715441) Homepage Journal

Give those special little snowflakes a taste of what everybody else has been living with for the last eight years.

Re:GOOD. (Score:2)
by convolvatron (176505) on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:58AM (#51715513)
sure, maybe the snowflakes deserve some blame. i mean who wouldn't want to bathe in money in exchange for working on something trivial like an instant messaging service that doesn't scale or an ad distribution network.

its just that they were so smug and self important about it

but really, the blame lies in the investment community. they get to bathe in alot more money, and ostensibly their job is to direct some fraction of the collective social resources towards efforts that will further enrich themselves, and indirectly society as a whole. at least that's my guess as to what this whole 'weath creation' narrative is.

except that they dont seem to be very trustworthy, seems like we get dutch tulips all the time. loans, electricity, tech, loans, tech, tech.

Re:GOOD. (Score:0)

by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:58AM (#51715523)

Give those special little snowflakes a taste of what everybody else has been living with for the last eight years.

+100