> Construction workers don’t say that being a good construction worker means not lifting heavy objects. They say “too bad, that’s the job”

I dont know, maybe in your part of the world, but where I'm from we have a series of robust worker protection laws that try to limit the damage the work does to you. We generally consider it a bad thing for workers to damage their bodies, and if we could build houses without it, we'd prefer that.

In this specific case we do have a techniques to build software without causing damage, so why change that?

This post is arguing that maybe software enginnering should start being harmful, even though we know it doesn't have to. It's a post of a guy begging to be fed into the capitalist meat grinder. Meaningless self sacrifice.