Most software is streamlined automated bureaucracy. Not in the pejorative sense, but in the "basic infrastructure of a human enterprise" sense. Seen that way,

Most software is streamlined automated bureaucracy. Not in the pejorative sense, but in the "basic infrastructure of a human enterprise" sense. Seen that way, it's absolutely criminal for software to allow the highest bidder to inject arbitrary bias into this infrastructure. On the other hand, it's absolutely foolish for organizations, which in the paper days hand-grew their infrastructure, to not closely scrutinize the nervous system/potential-trojan-horse that they're taking off the shelf and installing right into their core.