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by oneshoe
1884 days ago
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You really made me consider the ethics associated to this type of project. I'm curious about your thoughts about an internal questions I had in my head. What is different from this than say hired labor for picking up produce or something to that extent? |
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I've worked a few very dehumanizing programming jobs where I didn't have any agency and just worked to someone else's instructions without any room for input. Some people enjoy programming against a clear specification but I don't think anyone really wants to be a code monkey[0].
I think managers and job creators (like those building products in this space) need to think carefully about the humans they create jobs for. Just because someone is willing to do a soul destroying job for some amount of money doesn't mean that the job's designer is freed from the duty to consider the impacts of the job itself. Jobs are, after all, not just a contract between inanimate objects but context of work for human beings - efficiency and economics can't be the only considerations.
Participation in building structures like these carries with it an ethical responsibility which can't be ignored - especially where the harms are so blatantly dehumanizing.
[0] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...