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Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid
by frompdx 6y ago
Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid accountability at a scale much greater than what was possible with manual process.
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- Kalium 6y agoThe old saw about computers is that they're designed to allow humans to make millions of mistakes, very quickly and very accurately.
- phone8675309 6y agoIsn't this the basis of the book "IBM and the Holocaust"[1] where the author lays out how IBM's technology helped facilitate the wide scale of Nazi genocide? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- Kinrany 6y ago> Software is being used to avoid accountability Right, in the same way knives are used to rob people. This is not a new problem: an organization strategically builds an unmanageable bureacracy and then profits off the issue while claiming incompetence. Computers just make said bureaucracy cheaper to operate.