> Yeah but what we are all whining here about has hit many other jobs already in the past. I'm less talking about automation and more about the underpinnings o

> Yeah but what we are all whining here about has hit many other jobs already in the past. I'm less talking about automation and more about the underpinnings of the automation and the consequences in greater society. Not just the effects it has on poor ole software engineers. It is quite ironic to see the automation hit engineers, who in the past generally did not care about the consequences of their work, particularly in data spaces. We have all collectively found ourselves in a local minima of optimization, where the most profitable thing we can do is collect as much data on people as possible and continually trade it back and forth between parties who have proven they have no business holding said data.