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Someone actively sits down and codes all the things that make the world a worse place, and they often do it after and despite all of the arguments for why it is
by saurik 6y ago
Someone actively sits down and codes all the things that make the world a worse place, and they often do it after and despite all of the arguments for why it is bad; maybe you disagree that AMP is a problem--I, honestly, haven't made a decision there yet--but to be very blunt about it: we tend to attribute too many things to organizations and companies when there should be a list of very concrete names of engineers working at companies like Apple or Google that actively continue to work on technologies like DRM to lock people out of devices and tracking to centralize data... and we should remember it was only due to their willingness to work on these projects that these projects get done.
- m463 6y agoI believe the word you're looking for is quisling. I used to really be happy about computers - they made people's lives better. But business interests have really changed how computers work and I truly hope we can get them to work for us again.
- mathw 6y agoWe live in an unethical economy. Do you expect everyone to be able to live off founding an ethical startup?
- type0 6y agoEconomy itself isn't unethical, the corruption is. Unethical business practices and unethical corporate cultures is what allows our societies to rotten from inside. Tax evasions for the biggest conglomerates of the World, media cheering and rooting for anti-competitive behaviors and we don't even have to mention the shady political ties that make all other abuses possible.
- m-p-3 6y agoThis, and if all the devs shun a particular company as large as Facebook, it will just increase the salary offer until someone take it. There's always a price for someone to bend their ethics.
- account42 6y ago> There's always a price for someone to bend their ethics. That doesn't make it any more OK for you (ie, any specific developer) to bend your ethics. Also, increasing the cost for unethical practices will at least discourage some corporations from engaging in them.