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For many systems, the lack of you working on it might hurt someone.

For example, imagine you work in a bank on their mobile apps. You decide that implementing automatic bill payments for a certain type of account is too much technical effort and not worth it.

Hundreds of thousands of people with that account now have a subpar experience. They have to manually pay bills, and many will forget, leading to arrears, bankruptcy, payday loans, and prison.

Your decision not to implement that feature to make the lives of your customers better indirectly led to ruining the lives of tens or hundreds of people, who otherwise would have led a good life.

From an ethical point of view, unknowingly ruining a life due to an action or due to inaction, is pretty similar.