[mindwork]

It's just a job.

I'm not sure why one would put the weight of the impact of your work on yourself. You've been trained to do certain job, you've been hired to do the job, and you are doing it. You can have moral quarrels with the company mission(like working for defense), but you can't change the whole industry's direction.

Do people who invented printing press and made all the scribes obsolete need to think about their impact on the world? Does inventors of the car who put all horses out of work need to think about their impact? Does people who invented atomic bomb need to put a weight of the devastation that it brought on their chest? All those things have 2 sides, it improved life in one way and worsened it in others.

Professional deformation - is when you treat everything in life as a puzzle that needs to be solved. And when you switch your focus from engineering to societal problems and try to solve that, unfortunately it's not working like that. Sometimes life is just a chaos and it's not your or anyone else fault.

It's just a job.

[saubeidl]

I wonder if concentration camp guards thought the same.

[mindwork]

way to go comparing building web pages and mobile apps that push ADs on people with concentration camp guards. When I compared tech with engineering or even science.

[whattheheckheck]

Whatever makes you sleep at night