Corporate Branding: From Horses To Developers

The savage parallel between livestock branding and corporate swag is painfully accurate. Tech companies hand out logo-plastered backpacks like ranchers brand cattle—turning engineers into walking billboards while creating the illusion of "company culture." The irony? Those backpacks cost $15 to make but somehow appear as line items in the "employee benefits" spreadsheet. Meanwhile, the same companies will reject your pull request because you used tabs instead of spaces.