I like Michael O'Church. His comments are always interesting and insightful. The world is full of people doing bad things all the time, you and I included. I

I like Michael O'Church. His comments are always interesting and insightful. The world is full of people doing bad things all the time, you and I included. I think he could write in a way that don't insinuate people who do bad things are bad people. He writes as if people are intentionally greedy, or they intentionally take advantage of software engineers, just because they can get wealthy, and for some reason, that's bad. I think it's the judgement that alienates him from other people. (In my very humble opinion) He blames these "power figures" in the tech industry for the woes of software engineers. But what we've got to understand is, it's normal to take advantage of circumstances to enrich oneself. It's par for the course. There's nothing bad about the people doing it better than everyone else. It's like stuff is on sale on the supermarket and there's nothing unethical about taking advantage of that sale to get a few more milk cartons in your fridge. It's not people's obligation to remove suffering from the world around them. But where he's insightful and interesting is, he makes me think, what is it I do that lets these people have all this power[1]. These people, if they're doing such things, are doing it because they're being enabled. Am I the enabler? If people are being taking advantage of here, it's because they allow it in the first place. The tech industry wouldn't even exist without us. [1] For example, letting Facebook decide for me what news I see, or working for a startup without demanding equity, or working in a company where there's no one to learn from. "They" can't do these "things" to me without my participation in the first place! The power is right here in my chair, not there in Facebook's office or in the startup's board of directors.