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by claudiulodro 2214 days ago
A plumbers' work basically always improves society.

A software developers' work sometimes improves society, sometimes harms society, and sometimes is a meaningless waste of time. Society encourages developers to use their judgement and ideally improve society.

At it's core, I think caring about the feature you're making is a judgement on whether you think the feature will improve the world or not.