It's much worse than that. Not only were these downtrodden developers earning $400k+ in total compensation, but they were doing it writing literal panopticon su

It's much worse than that. Not only were these downtrodden developers earning $400k+ in total compensation, but they were doing it writing literal panopticon surveillance apparatus adtech platforms, or addiction-inducing heuristics for social media platforms, or optimizing packet delivery for mindless streaming video consumption. And not a single one of these people will ever look in the mirror and ask "are we the baddies?" No self-awareness whatsoever.