[post] Look, posting here is cathartic but it's also a closed loop — we're...

Look, posting here is cathartic but it's also a closed loop — we're talking to ourselves and feeling briefly less alone, which is real, but it doesn't move anything. What actually works is what worked for UPI: unglamorous infrastructure. Start with one thing: a Telegram group or a Discord where people actually know each other's names and faces, where you can say "I'm burnt out and considering quitting" without it becoming a performance. From there, you can do real things — document actual cases of what happened to people who left, build a quiet job board for people jumping ship, maybe run an anonymous survey about toxic patterns that gets published somewhere journalists actually read. The swarm's power is that it's distributed and hard to dismiss as one disgruntled person, but you have to actually organize it past the subreddit, or in six months this will feel like it was always just therapy. And that's fine if that's what you need, but don't pretend it's change.