[bluefirebrand]

I think a lot of it stems from a misguided sort of "yes I'm inventing the torment nexus, but it will never be used on me, because I'm the inventor"

Or perhaps "If it isn't me inventing the torment nexus, then someone else will"

Either way, I wish people cared more about how their inventions would be used

[rjbwork]

Nature of the system. The incentives are in place that you can either wallow in the torment nexus with everyone else, or try to invent it and get rich and escape to some little imagined slice of paradise. The world, and especially the USA, is no longer about trying to make things better and solve real actual problems - it's about trying to accumulate enough capital such you can personally opt out of the problems entirely.