This reminds me that the same, naïve spirit that drives young or college-bound persons to incubate new ideas in the pursuit of a different future is the same on

This reminds me that the same, naïve spirit that drives young or college-bound persons to incubate new ideas in the pursuit of a different future is the same one that can be ruthlessly exploited when it's in the hands of unethical agents. I would think that the ability to start up your personal computer, download an entire UI engine like Flutter and build whatever you feel like with it is not going to be the same ethically if you were directed to replace a text widget in the Flutter control responsible for showing YouTube's video dislike count. The mindset and opinions of both parties would be drastically different. But in both cases, focusing on the smaller picture makes the entire process appear to the programmer to be nothing more than an afternoon reading through some documentation and StackOverflow posts, followed by the morally neutral stimulation of typing out keystrokes and figuring out interesting puzzles. Developer documentation and the like will never give suggestions about one's life goals, but it's worth asking just what the pursuit of that knowledge is ultimately intending to accomplish.