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>I know for sure that I don't exploit anyone, You might not directly exploit anyone, but you (and I) are making tools that make it easier for others to exploit
by quanticle 12y ago
>I know for sure that I don't exploit anyone,
You might not directly exploit anyone, but you (and I) are making tools that make it easier for others to exploit people. I mean, let's take Amazon's warehouses, for example. Would Amazon be able to push its warehouse workers as hard it does without the software that manages inventory and tells warehouse employees exactly where to go and when? I doubt it. But that software didn't magically spring into existence. It was written, by a team of programmers and iteratively improved until it allowed Amazon to push its warehouse workers as hard as it does today.
So no, we software developers not exploit anyone, but that doesn't mean that we're not complicit in exploitation.