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As a techie, you can just help the economy by making/providing whatever widget/service the market needs. That creates employment and keeps people's retirement f
by pesfandiar 10y ago
As a techie, you can just help the economy by making/providing whatever widget/service the market needs. That creates employment and keeps people's retirement funds afloat. If the growth stops, many people will suffer.
If you actually want to make a huge difference, get into economics, politics, policymaking, etc. to affect the way markets work.
- marmot777 10y agoI think that's true as far as it goes but I think the market fails in critical areas. I think people who work any widget or service that people are willing to pay for is helping someone, excluding pure evil like DDOS as Service, cracking tools, etc.
- marmot777 10y agoI don't really think affecting how markets work is something I think's a good idea nor do I think it's an optimal path for me anyway. God bless those who do it. The thing is I don't even see fundamental changes to the way the market works is even a good idea to attempt, however incompetently or well, it's going to be a buggy mess. I'm not advocating anything at all right now, I'm just listening and expressing my own opinions, all provisional.
- marmot777 10y agoOf course, there's nothing wrong with using the tax code to try to, say, reduce pollution.