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by racer-v 3007 days ago
Yes exactly. The direction he takes his line of thought in the postscript - expelling individual members of the engineering profession for unethical behavior - is fatuous. The big trends are driven by big money: which business models and technologies get funding.

It's not the engineer whose bug accidentally irradiated a patient that's the problem; it's the VC's investing billions in spying on and shaping human behavior.