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Given that the entire modern tech business is addiction as a service, I don't think we have any room for moral grandstanding. Remember when Internet addiction

• bsder 6y ago
  > Given that the entire modern tech business is addiction as a service That is grossly unfair to the many of us who have absolutely nothing to do with the latest Social-Garbage-As-A-Service fads. Just because VCs will only fund Internet Junk Food does not mean that all software that exists does that.
  • User23 6y ago
    I commend you for your integrity. However the exceptions are a rounding error in terms of market cap, because today's tech industry is all about creating addicts and profiting from their addiction directly or selling access to them to a third party. Sometimes both. It's not a coincidence that we're one of only two industries that refers to customers as users.
    • bsder 6y ago
      While its probably hard to disagree about market cap, there are a lot of people writing software that backs your laptop/desktop, runs your bank, plans logistics delivery routes, runs medical equipment, etc. There is a lot of software out there that isn't dedicated to triggering human dopamine receptors. You don't hear a lot about it as it's just part of the job. And I didn't choose to have integrity--it's just that nobody ever offered me enough money to compromise it. :)