> Maybe, just maybe, that's because inventing something is actually within their grasp, whereas wholesale replacing every civil engineer and architect in the co

> Maybe, just maybe, that's because inventing something is actually within their grasp, whereas wholesale replacing every civil engineer and architect in the country isn't? That is like the old joke about the drunk who lost his keys in the dark alley but is looking for them by the lamppost because the light's better there. If what's "in your grasp" isn't going to make things better, then just don't do it. Virtually every "engineer type" working for a large tech company is making the world worse simply by participating in that large tech company's activities, and it would be more ethical for them to simply quit than continue to do anything within that context.