Re:How Evil Is Tech?
by pmoriarty on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:49PM
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I have a different set of gripes, regarding people in tech who are:
1 - Working for and enabling makers of spyware and other privacy-defeating technologies (including companies like Google and Facebook who make it their business to spy on their users).
2 - Working for the military and "defense" contractors or on technology which is intended to kill or enable more efficient killing of people.
3 - Working for advertisers who lie and manipulate people in to buying shit they don't need.
4 - Working for or as spammers, malware purveyors, and various other blackhats.
5 - Exploiting people who work for them by underpaying them, overworking them, manipulating them, or lying to them.
6 - Lack education outside of STEM -- particularly lacking knowledge of history, ethics, literature, and art that makes for a myopic narrow-mindedness.
7 - When the above lack of education is combined with arrogance and a darwinian, survival of the fittest, might makes right, "look out for number one and fuck everybody else" attitude without any sort of social conscience or desire to improve the world beyond making it easier for the rich to get richer.
1 - Working for and enabling makers of spyware and other privacy-defeating technologies (including companies like Google and Facebook who make it their business to spy on their users).
2 - Working for the military and "defense" contractors or on technology which is intended to kill or enable more efficient killing of people.
3 - Working for advertisers who lie and manipulate people in to buying shit they don't need.
4 - Working for or as spammers, malware purveyors, and various other blackhats.
5 - Exploiting people who work for them by underpaying them, overworking them, manipulating them, or lying to them.
6 - Lack education outside of STEM -- particularly lacking knowledge of history, ethics, literature, and art that makes for a myopic narrow-mindedness.
7 - When the above lack of education is combined with arrogance and a darwinian, survival of the fittest, might makes right, "look out for number one and fuck everybody else" attitude without any sort of social conscience or desire to improve the world beyond making it easier for the rich to get richer.