When you make something that will be mass produced 80 million times, you have a fundamental duty as an engineer to absolutely minimize the amount of negative ex

When you make something that will be mass produced 80 million times, you have a fundamental duty as an engineer to absolutely minimize the amount of negative externalities that will be experienced by people that come into contact with the surface that you have inflicted upon the world. “Real” engineers understand this and that is why they are often seemingly irrational about their selective attention to detail. Hacks and noobs are just unintentionally dumping plane loads of gum wrappers over our cities, nominally increasing human misery by tiny amounts without even realizing it… but in a population of billions, and more transistors than grains of sand on the planet, the overall effect is cumulative and significant. That’s why people that understand their civic responsibility to do their job to the best of their ability look upon hacks and noobs with concern or sometimes active hostility.