> big tech is bad > why can't people just move on
Big tech has come to signify great power in the 2010s (Market capitalisation is just the clearest sign). Fighting a goliath is never a subtle affair. A lot of people (and I guess Hackers) feel the need to counter that force at the slightest occasion, whatever the means necessary.
So, it is the fear of absolute power that makes us hateful.
> startups shouldn't do promotions > don’t make me pay you
Similarly, in the 2010s, Start-ups has come to signify (infinite) growth and flush money, whatever their real situation really is. And there are so many of them that we seem to have acquired a sort of "promotion fatigue" we only overcome with add-values like OSS.
So it is the market-saturation that makes us tired, and the (apparent) easy-money that makes us unwilling to give ours.
Tired, hateful, cynical... These are the side effects of "tech growth".