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This article completely misses the point of the original quote. The original quote is not 'they could be working in better fields', it's 'the entire structural
by zesterer 6y ago
This article completely misses the point of the original quote. The original quote is not 'they could be working in better fields', it's 'the entire structural incentives of capitalism are messed up'.
- b3kart 6y agoAnd yet here on HN it's the workers themselves who are often blamed for choosing to work for these soulless tech companies while they're free to go cure cancer at some startup.
- EamonnMR 6y agoFree? Hardly. Nobody is free to do anything medical. You need to comply with a whole suite of regulations put there for patient safety. I think that's part of the allure of adtech; nobody's telling you you need to get your CLIA certificate updated to cover every new A/B test. And if you screw up, nothing bad happens. Unless you're targeting people with Bad Stuff, I guess.
- orangeoxidation 6y agoThis. The OP is fighting a straw man. The argument opposed is a critic of the system, not a broad attack on individuals.
- pjc50 6y agoPeople really struggle to cope with structural vs individual issues. TBH, I'd expect programmers to be slightly better at understanding situations where each side of a communication is doing things that it things are correct - or necessarily defensive - while the other side thinks they are wrong. Architectural issues, where there is no specific wrong line of code to point to.
- Bluestein 6y ago> not 'they could be working in better fields', it's 'the entire structural incentives of capitalism are messed up'. Can't both be true, I sincerely wonder?