I am ever surprised how much self loathing the tech workers can take on themselves. If you fix 1 bug related to privacy are you complicit? What about a bug not

I am ever surprised how much self loathing the tech workers can take on themselves. If you fix 1 bug related to privacy are you complicit? What about a bug not related to privacy but in a company that is later found out to be a bad actor (Wirecard). How about we make the managers accountable? I worked for many large organisations and in each of them when work is presented to the developer, all decisions have been made. There is at least as many decision makers as devs: managers, functional analysts, POs, feature engineers, chapter leads, enterprise architects, customer journey experts etc. They spend countless hours explicitly conspiring to develop these features. They get internal agreements something will be built. It is impossible to unknowingly push an evil feature through all the approvals a bigco requires. Sure, If you find yourself directly developing immoral code you probably should leave the company but please, there are 10 decision makers who should be held accountable. But don't blame the developers. The management is already doing the blaming [1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls-2016-diesel-lineup-from-us-market/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls...