When Google's internal turmoil surfaced about the work on Project Jedi, it did not ultimately kill the project[0]. As long as there's someone else still willin

When Google's internal turmoil surfaced about the work on Project Jedi, it did not ultimately kill the project[0]. As long as there's someone else still willing to compromise their moral grounds for the value returned, it's still going to get made. That's just how capitalist societies work: People need to make money and someone is going to fulfill that objectional need because they have a need to fill their own coffers. One need only look at the fervor against Facebook and realise that they still employ over 35k people to understand that, at the end of the day, people are either willing to do the task or they're in a position that they have no other choice (considering that the US doesn't have much of a social safety net). So, while "conscientious objectors" might be good for a single business direction, it - sadly - does nothing for the overall scheme of things. ...but even if all of the engineers organised in North America to create manifestos, under psuedo or actual unions, which dictated what the future of tech should be used for, this does nothing to dissuade the partners (e.g.: 5Is) from doing the same and then sharing that technology back to their own government. I concede that maybe I'm misunderstanding the author's intent but to me, the posit seems too idyllic to be fruitful (overall) in modern society. [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/pentagon-s-designer-of-10-billion-jedi-cloud-is-stepping-down https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/pentagon-...