> When are engineers going to understand that the bullshit corporations buy the politicians that write the laws? Never. Because as engineers we're optimists, i

> When are engineers going to understand that the bullshit corporations buy the politicians that write the laws? Never. Because as engineers we're optimists, if I just resigned to this fact, there'd be no hope left. It's not that we don't understand, it's that we don't accept. Many of us also aren't capitalists, so we can't believe that the "free market" will resolve it either. We build things, somewhat in isolation to the "human problem", some of us (I speak for myself) because technology, machines, are better? easier? more consistent? predictable? reliable? quantifiable? than humans. We can solve technical problems, we can't solve humans being completly greedy, selfish pricks; those corporations buying those politicians are just humans. Engineering is _easy_, compared to people and people problems.