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What you're describing as a harmful archetype is the job you've been hired to perform. The disconnect is between your self-image and reality. Refusing to accept
by closewith 2y ago
What you're describing as a harmful archetype is the job you've been hired to perform. The disconnect is between your self-image and reality. Refusing to accept that is intransigent.
It doesn't matter if you consider it good or bad - morals don't come into commercial software development. The closest you ever get is platitudes when it doesn't conflict with profits.
- gmassman 2y agoMorals aren’t always involved in commercial software development, and likely they never have been in any of your workplaces. However, I think it’s a gross mischaracterization to claim that morals and business don’t have any overlap. I work in the health tech industry, and I feel good knowing that patients benefit from using our device. I know I wouldn’t feel the same way if I was working at some fintech optimizing stock trading to the Nth degree.
- closewith 2y agoThe only difference between your workplaces and mine is that I recognise the nature of for-profit enterprise, notwithstanding your naiveté. I work in healthcare and patient care occurs in spite of commercial software development, not because of it.
- pydry 2y agoI never said anything about morals. I just like having agency and have professional pride in my work. Perhaps you dont. This has very little to do with capitalist realities. As I mentioned before, the saner the company was about this stuff the less likely they were to eat losses.