[autoexec]

Yet they stopped thinking as soon as their wallet got involved and never considered that their kids also need freedom and the ability to use technology that works for them and not against them. Selfishness and greed are the problem. The kids are just a convenient but shallow way to deflect from that.

[cortesoft]

I get the idea of refusing on principle, but the older I get the more I have started to become pessimistic towards that stance.

I have seen time and time again that individual, principled stands like this do nothing to change anything and only hurt the individual. Unless you are part of an organized movement against something, opting out doesn't help.

[autoexec]

Opting out at the very least means that you aren't the problem. I'd agree though that it's long past time people organized against these issues because one person has very little influence over how corporations act.

[trumpdong]

Idk, sounds better than being dead, just in my opinion.

[autoexec]

Nobody implemented DRM with a gun pointed at their heads, and anyone capable of implementing harmful technology has the skills to work on something else for lots of money implementing other things. It was always a choice.

[fluoridation]

That you could work someplace else doesn't mean someplace else is hiring someone with your skills, or that you could afford a pay cut if necessary.

[pepperoni_pizza]

This is true for fruit pickers or uber drivers or whatever but it is ridiculously out of place statement for software engineers.

[fluoridation]

I know a guy who's been looking for work for like a year, and he's got a math degree.