[risyachka]

Tbh this is possible only in software. No matter what you do - epic incompetence, leak user data, doxx users, basically allow their identities to be stolen etc - zero consequences.

Kinda crazy. In any other industry they would not even allow you in the door without showing some king of understanding what you do.

You can't even sell hotdogs without food license. But in software - wild west.

[cjs_ac]

The general public has come to accept that computers are magic. Sometimes the magic does good things, sometimes it does bad things. If there's a person with a public profile who is seen to be controlling the computers, governments might do something to punish that person, but if they remain invisible, no one dares tamper with the magic.

[nomilk]

Not quite true, see Banking.

[0_____0]

Or medical devices. Or aviation/spaceflight. Or automotive.

It turns out there's actually quite a bit of precedent for doing actual Software Engineering, versus what most of the software world seem to be doing (presumably rotating a database by 90 degrees, duct taping it to another database, and sticking a front-end on it?)

[thefz]

Well, finance and banking can do even worse and be bailed out with public money.