[helpfulanon]

I am surprised by the sheer volume of tech professionals who have been responding to this article today by unapologetically reinforcing it's primary position. The idea that the industry should have no accountability for it's actions seems to be the jarring consensus.

I want to believe that those of us who are opposed to the use of technology purely for greed and power still outnumber, but am starting to feel like maybe we are an island and a dying breed, giving way to a new callous generation of technologists who wish to wield the power of social technology for only individual ambitions over the democratic idealism of collaboration that it was founded on. This is a dark time indeed

[taurath]

Then you get into the "not my responsibility" paradigm. What do you actually do to help the people who's industry you've replaced? What CAN one company even do? The usual libertarian response seems to be that people need to look out for themselves and keep their skillsets fresh - ignoring the larger forces at play here. Maybe someone else has a more cogent argument for how a person can avoid getting caught up randomly in what amounts to a broader economic trend.