> Instead, address your concerns to the companies and the leadership that made those companies problematic in the first place. My knee-jerk reaction to the con

> Instead, address your concerns to the companies and the leadership that made those companies problematic in the first place. My knee-jerk reaction to the conclusion of this piece was to recall a couple of lines from The Universal Soldier: "But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau? "Without him Caesar would have stood alone" My feeling was that, while any one software developer doesn't necessarily cause significant movement of the needle, in aggregate, the choices we make collectively about who we choose to enable have significant consequences to how the future unfolds. Trying to look up the lyrics, though, I was once-again reacquainted with a snippet of an interview with Buffy Sainte Marie prepended to a video of one of her live performances in which she recalls seeing enlisted soldiers during the Vietnam war repatriating their casualties, horrified, and looking for someone to blame. Unable to blame the soldiers themselves, starts off blaming senior military leadership, but over time shifts, first to blaming politicians for having directed the actions of the military, but eventually ends up deciding that ultimately the responsible party was "us" - the citizenry, having elected and enabled to politicians to take the actions they did. While it seems uncomfortably presumptive, if not pretentious to propose any kind of general equivalence between tech workers and soldiers, the parallels between the odd, internally contradictory idealism found in tech, and the contradiction of fighting war indefinitely, hoping to ultimately bring about world peace seem eerily apt, with the themes of The Universal Soldier being worth considering anew in the context of 'big tech' in 2021.