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What if, and hear me out on this, we tell people off when they do something wrong? I know its controversial, but imagine that this was someone's really cute hu
by KaiserPro 7y ago
What if, and hear me out on this, we tell people off when they do something wrong?
I know its controversial, but imagine that this was someone's really cute husky. Sure every day it would bounce about the place and make funny husky noises.
However every week, on a sunday, it would attack your child and poop on the carpet.
A normal person wouldn't shrug and say, "Hubert the husky brings a lot of value to the household, so lets just ignore this." No. You'd bollock the arrogant shit when it did wrong, and praise it when it was good.
The dirty secret of Silicon value is that actually, individuals are replaceable. What isn't replaceable is time and money. The cult of the Jerk is a defence mechanism to allow shit to continue to be shits.
repeat after me:
If they've broken the law or done something morally grey, bollock them.
I know that sounds radical and foreign, but its part of a thing called "wider society"
- mcguire 7y agoIf Hubert the Husky makes a shit-ton of money, the definition of "did wrong" changes.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI don't care how much money someone earns, be it a dog or otherwise, or if they can buy me untold carpets. I am still going to tell them off if they shit in the middle of the living room floor.
- Tade0 7y agoProblem is, the incentive for businesses is to fire you and make Hubert the Husky happy, so only such businesses survive.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI knew there was a good reason why I hadn't commented any code, named all variables using the elvish translations for a variety of diseases of sheep and built the DB backend out of practically unknown fork of paradox for dos that will only run queries if you keep the lowercase letter 'j' held down. edit - also known as 'best practice' when writing bespoke software for industry.