[CapstanRoller]

>The exact same way so many programmers can sign up for and continue to work for Surveillance Valley?

Your point has some merit, but there's a big difference between being an engineer working with systems that can be misused and waking up every morning ready to crack people's skulls (especially since those people are usually impoverished, gender & sexual minorities, marginalized in some other way, etc) or outright murder them.

Yes, both people contribute to systemic violence in a way, but I would argue that there is a vast gulf between participating in society (which is mandatory) and being at the tip of the spear of violent repression.

Imagine having coworkers who routinely committed murder and received paid vacations for it.