Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese programmer Chen earns his living working remotely for a Western tech company. Chen is a volunteer “maintainer” who helps run V2Ray, one of a number of open-source virtual private networks and proxy servers that are gaining in popularity amid China’s crackdown on commercial VPNs, which are illegal to use without government authorisation. It’s not battery included.” …
This story is adapted from Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe. The schools, Agwaze and other programmers explained to me in a London pub, pump out “eight gazillion” games developer grads, for whom there are not necessarily enough good jobs. I can handle bad conditions.’” He wanted …
