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by nugi 3038 days ago
This is the kind of comment that really hits hard how unwilling tech workers are to stand up for ethics.

"My cog in the machine is not hurting anyone, why should I care" is how things get very, very bad.

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it's more like "I am a tiny replaceable cog in a huge money-printing machine. if somebody is going to collect the paycheck anyway, why shouldn't it be me?"

making the hard choice is easy when you have nothing to lose, and it's even easier when you're so rich that the losses don't matter. the folks in the middle have just enough that it would really hurt to lose it. I can't say I blame them for guarding that jealously.