The fact that this position is not even discussed but taken as an obviously true first premise by so many people in tech/engineering is rather troubling; I thin

The fact that this position is not even discussed but taken as an obviously true first premise by so many people in tech/engineering is rather troubling; I think it is the root cause of many very dysfunctional worldviews/failures to comprehend essential parts of life: over-application of economic thinking in all areas of discourse, libertarianism, stress upon efficiency at all costs in all cases, dismissal of the humanities, art, etc. It is all driven from a simpler and more fundamental notion, that sometimes people who work on computers all day can begin to believe humans and computers are identical; a human that doesn't consistently optimize its actions with respect to certain metrics is just buggy/poorly executed software, hence, the poor deserve to be poor, action without potential utility gain/profit is wasted and valueless, etc.