alt Hacker NewsPeople are never ever ever allowed to realize maybe sometimes bad things are bad once the chickens come home to roost. An antisocial belief they held fifteen years ago needs to define them forever, because people are just machines for receiving guilt and wrath, they can’t learn anything from suffering personally, or if they can here’s why it’s bad anyway.
Also engineers building stuff to spec are exactly the same thing as venture capitalists
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kentm • today at 5:49 PM
I don’t think they’re trying to imply that at all. But arguing that it’s bad without a mea culpa comes across as inauthentic.
More specifically, someone actively building on top of Amazon decrying the exploitation of workers and the environment is demonstrably hypocritical.
And "engineers building things to spec" are not the same as those giving the orders, but they should take a measure of responsibility for the things they build. I think most people generally agree about the culpability of those following orders when people are harmed. I'm not even saying they should necessarily be held accountable; just that moralizing about it is hypocritical.