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Job satisfaction through new shiny tech things. It's why many brilliant minds appear to be quite content working for unethical tech giants, advertising or surv
by thinkingemote 3y ago
Job satisfaction through new shiny tech things.
It's why many brilliant minds appear to be quite content working for unethical tech giants, advertising or surveillance companies.
The reason why the company exists doesn't matter to them.
What the company actually does outside of their computer doesn't matter to them.
The technology and their freedom to pursue the New does. Companies love the production and enthusiasm they provide and pay well for it.
(Usually these types of developers do have a conscience and it's often taken up, used and displayed in worthwhile and benevolent corporate friendly style social activism)
- mlrtime 3y agoWhat you say is true, and I read it as a positive not a negative. The "unethical" part is subjective so the manipulation doesn't get to me. I see this as positive because computer nerds (I'm one) get to be paid very well to figure out the new and shiny. It's what I'd be doing at home anyway. Most of the time nothing of value is created (Except my amusement), but every once in a while something brilliant is, and due to scale, it can have big impact.
- stankondrat 3y ago> The "unethical" part is subjective so the manipulation doesn't get to me. Good specialist engineers designed gas chambers in Nazi Germany
- silverquiet 3y agoApparently you're not supposed to make comparisons to Nazi Germany (Godwin's law if you want to be too-online about it); it's considered gauche I suppose. What's funny is that that strikes me as a really good rule to follow if you do in fact want to sleepwalk your society into an analogue of Nazi Germany.
- valval 3y agoSeeing as the closer in ideology you seem to have to be to make such claims, I don’t believe what you’re saying is true for a second.