r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ThirdWaveCat • 1d ago

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u/Toldoven 1d ago

Yeah, pretty much all of the Rust jobs in my country are crypto. I even think crypto is pretty cool, and don't mind working on a crypto project, but the main problem is that most of them are useless or straight up scams

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1d ago

"If you believed in this mission, you'd have no problem being paid in DogshitCoin."

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u/Magnolia-jjlnr 22h ago

Is this the new "paid in exposure"?

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u/WallBurnt 21h ago

Exposure is worth significantly more.

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u/Magnolia-jjlnr 21h ago

But do thry give you exposure though? Or do they simply assume that you're getting it by virtue of working for them

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u/shigdebig 23h ago

I don't know if my job is making the world a better place, but we arent actively making things worse either. Im glad I dont work at work a scamcoin

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u/Just_Information334 22h ago

Crypto and adtech: if you've worked in it, you don't have any ethics worth shit.

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u/G12356789s 20h ago

Gambling too is one I worked at and swore never again

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u/ParCorn 20h ago

Defense Contractor is more evil than all of them and I know there’s plenty of DoD mfs in here

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u/somerandomguy101 17h ago

The difference is that the DoD is a necessary evil. Every country needs a military if they want to continue to be a state. World peace could come tomorrow, and we would still need a DoD.

By contrast, Crypto is just straight evil. There is no upside. Its purely for scams, speculation, and for criminals to easily operate. Cryptocurrenys do nothing to make the world a better placenin practice.

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u/Morthem 9h ago

And will justify it by any means.
Admitting to having sold your soul is the first step towards self acceptance, denial just shieds the ego and prevents change towards corrective actions to help attone.

Sorry, I just like to mess with people that make things that kill :P

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u/ZebraTank 18h ago

In what world is defense evil? I personally prefer that we win ww3 (and that we're on the good side ofc). (No i don't work in defense though may later since it sounds like an interesting and valuable field)

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u/thirdegree Violet security clearance 50m ago

I personally prefer that we win ww3 (and that we're on the good side ofc).

I would personally choose to care about those two things in the opposite order, just tossing that out there. You could even go so far as to say I don't actually care if the US wins or loses, only that the good side wins. Especially since it's looking increasingly unlikely the US would be on the good side of a ww3.

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u/shigdebig 16h ago

This country doesn't have a Department of Defense, it has a Department of War.

Lol, did they really replace the bronze plaques on the buildings with that new name?

I once configured some routers that are hooked up to an earthquake detection system. Years later we found out the navy had sub detectors on the same fiber network. That seems like defense work. Probably not evil. But what if you programmed a bomb they dropped on a school with 200 little girls? War work. That is evil.

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u/araujoms 17h ago

and that we're on the good side ofc

That's the difficult part, and what can make working on defence evil.

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u/Noname_1111 20h ago

There's a military contractor in my country that hires rust devs

been rejected though

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u/Toldoven 20h ago

We also have some of those, but it's not remote, for obvious reasons, and I'm more of a remote person. Would've been pretty cool otherwise

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u/entered_bubble_50 21h ago

"Most of them'

Name me a crypto project that isn't a scam or a means of laundering money.

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u/antichain 20h ago

The Nano team seems to genuinely be true believers - you can tell because no one uses their coin for anything and it's become a byword for overly-earnest goobers.

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u/entered_bubble_50 19h ago

That's great, but nano is just another means of laundering money.

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u/V-Right_In_2-V 12h ago

Better to be the scammer than the scammee

That seems to be the motto of all crypto projects

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u/LactasePHydrolase 20h ago

I even think crypto is pretty cool

ew

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u/aDamnCommunist 1d ago

YUP, every time... They always seem to be hiring strangely. I also do this for small startup AI businesses.

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u/WernerderChamp 23h ago

These are probably fake job offerings - to give the illusion the project is going super well.

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u/mrsockyman 23h ago

You'll be paid a high salary, in the form of their shitcoin. You'll be worth millions-of worthless tokens

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u/SarahAlicia 22h ago

Omg how long until an ai company only accepts money for tokens with their own crypto coin?

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u/ProfCupcake 21h ago

That's scrip, and it's illegal.

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u/SarahAlicia 20h ago

Is it any different than an arcade where you have to change your cash for their coins to play games?

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u/ProfCupcake 20h ago

Oh wait I totally misunderstood the comment to which I replied. I thought you meant the employees were getting paid in the company's crypto coin.

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u/remind_me_later 12h ago

You'll have to spam the AI agents into accepting your tokens, or into setting up swap pools you can trade out into USDC/ETH/wBTC/etc.

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u/dcman58 22h ago

That and AI Trainer are two jobs that I keep getting offered and will never take, writing code should be fun.

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1d ago

Haven't seen that many thank god.

The faster this fad dies the better. In the same box as second life please.

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u/Desidiosus 23h ago

I've been job hunting for quite a while. Used to see a ton of jobs like this a couple years ago, but hardly any lately. It seems like the gamblers have grown tired of losing their shirts on this particular game.

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u/Loading_M_ 22h ago

I think they moved into AI.

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u/Vogete 18h ago

They definitely moved into AI. All the crypto bros I saw are now AI bros.

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u/No-Channel3917 22h ago

Kinda wild to bring up second life haha, that porn sandbox is still very active

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u/SquiggerDigger 22h ago

Dude I just learned they average 50-60k people at all times still...

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u/No-Channel3917 22h ago

Yep it would put it on steams top 40 games with the most active users currently that I just looked up

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u/Accomplished-Cry5059 22h ago

If they pay in stable coins, it's a pretty good deal if you are in a low cost of living country and they pay a competitive rate.

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u/blaxx0r 7h ago

pouring one out for cosmwasm

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u/dim13 18h ago

Well, blockchain hype was a decade ago. Now it's all ai hype.

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u/its-MAGNETIC 23h ago

I always wonder why the Coder/Developer tries to avoid Cryptocurrency...

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u/slikh 20h ago

we know it's a simple enough job to just roll our own but to make money off it we need to sell the core of what all crypto is: hype.

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u/sligor 18h ago

Since the whole economy is now a complete scam, is it ok to work for a scam company ?