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by pandem 2920 days ago
If ICE has to get worse software that just means you and everyone else need to pay more in taxes. The government has the means to get what it wants usually
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That's only a problem if "minimize taxes" is the only metric you care about.
Usually that just translates to more and better Potemkin villages. Ultimately, knowledge and skills are a limited resource, and money is not a replacement for it.
That argument can be used to justify supporting any atrocity.

IBM and other companies helping the nazis used that argument.