Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure

Re:Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Ha... by kvczor on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:34AM (#19571406)

...so you are not critically thinking about your work in the context of how useful it is to the end user? That's a bad UI work, I'd say.

As for your senior thesis - Developer's job is to create software that makes lives easier. It was your decision to use your skills to harm people by exploiting their privacy. Or it could be seen as something good - you discovered a way to exploit people and if you informed whoever was running this app you helped a good amount of people in your school.

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Re:Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Ha... by spaceribs on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:42AM (#19571513)

I think you're misunderstanding both my role as a UI developer and as an artist...

It takes critical time and energy to reduce the complexity of a products' features to something a layperson can use, and a layperson is usually barely paying attention.

As to your second point, I wasn't a developer, I was an artist, attempting to ask real questions about privacy and spark real discussions and possibly getting myself in trouble to start a conversation.

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