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I can’t help but feel like history will look back at this time period and ask themselves: what the fuck were they thinking? A whole generation of smart engineer

• smt88 8y ago
  Smart engineers are optimizing addiction, burning fossil fuels, and many other social ills. But those pursuits make a lot of money, and absent regulation, the labor market will be attracted toward them. The future you're talking about will have to be regulated much more (at, at least, differently) than the present. I doubt it could even be capitalist -- which, to be clear, I see as a good thing.
  • ihm 8y ago
    This is about what capital funds, not the labor market. Given how unorganized it is, workers mostly just have to work on whatever projects get funded.
• em500 8y ago
  Money. People can rationalize a lot given enough money. (see also: workers in the tobacco/casino/opoid industry). The average compensation at the Silicon Valley giants seems roughly 3 to 4 times that of the average American (and I guestimate about twice as high if you control for education level).
• superkuh 8y ago
  It's also a problem when people use words with strong, defined meanings like addiction where they aren't appropriate. Often this kind of thing is then turned into bad legislation because 'addiction' carrys such strong connotations.