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Read 'The age of surveillance capitalism'. Engineers should understand the business models they create.
by awefasdfasdf 6y ago
Read 'The age of surveillance capitalism'. Engineers should understand the business models they create.
- minikites 6y agoEngineers don't respect any subject outside of STEM, education like this would fall on deaf ears.
- awefasdfasdf 6y agoThey seem to respect their inflated salaries.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoIn America, what else is there? :3
- tolbish 6y agoThat's not true; they respect the sciences. But only sufficiently "hard" ones like chemistry and biology.
- yannoninator 6y agoscience is STEM no?
- tolbish 6y agoBut not all sciences are respected.
- yakubin 6y agoYou seem to think that the meaning of "STEM" includes anything that anyone applied the word "science" to. But no, the "science" part is precisely the "hard" sciences. E.g. psychology, economics and theology aren't included in STEM.
- tolbish 6y agoI thought it was STEM instead of HSTEM. Silly me. Sarcasm aside, not all natural sciences are treated equally. There are differing attitudes towards astronomy, oceanography, and climatology, for example.
- call_me_dana 6y agoHi! Systems engineer for two decades now. I have a deep respect for philosophy, natural medicine, photography and the environment. I suspect many other engineers would have interests outside of their profession.
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- eulers_secret 6y agoI understand this knee-jerk reaction, but please don't judge engineers by what they post on HN. This place is... odd. (as I'm sure you know!) If I formed my opinion only from HN, I'd think most engineers love: big-tech, advertising, electric cars, Apple, tech-enabled tracking (autos, web, cell-phone, watches, exercise machines, music players - it's ok if business profits!), and tend toward self-righteousness, narcissism, and virtue-signalling. Of course, most of us are just living our lives and trying to get by. I don't know where this self-important insufferable attitude comes from, but I suspect it's a few folks who are very noisy. Most 'normal' people don't spend much time posting to sites like these, so there is a selection bias. Sadly, I also suspect that this attitude is an advantage in today's environment. It is a mirage of self-confidence, and telling the two apart can be very hard (especially for a potential employer).
- etiam 6y agoThere are plenty of categories of human for which this community would not stand for an overly broad, coarse generalization like that. Personally I'm not even convinced your claim is effective as a prejudice. What I'll concede is many engineers I've met seem to be harsher than average on pseudoscience och some varieties of manipulative lies, but that's to be expected as they have distinguishing knowledge for such things to clash with.