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> I'd dare a survey, how many HN people actually work on exactly these technologies, how many read these words, and how many actually care?

This is an excellent question. We'd likely find that there is an enormous disconnect between high IQ, well educated engineers and high emotional and social intelligence.

The perennial excuses; "it's just a job" , "everybody's doing it", "if I didn't build <monstrosity x> then someone else would" ... these have grown tiresome and weak. Everybody now knows these are stupid and dangerous things we are doing.

Is there a kind of fatalistic malice at work? How do people who work on this kind of thing manage the dissonance?