Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by povertyworld on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:53PM
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Why put this on programmers? The guy making the decision to make Dragonfly is a Stanford MBA with a materials background. It's not some working class kid who made it through a Javascript bootcamp that is making decisions about the direction of future Google products. So, why don't we let the MBAs be the ones to form an ethical organization to police themselves.
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Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by username90 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:14PM
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I feel that many MBA's treat immoral behavior as just PR debt.
Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by csallen on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:32PM
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It's not like programmers are some different moral class. "Many of X are immoral" applies to almost all X.
Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by ahartmetz on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:36AM
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I guess the difference is that the management track rewards immoral behavior - the higher you go the more of it you'll see.
Re:Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
by _lessthan0 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:41AM
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Because you get paid to do the work, if a person X comes up to you and offers Y amount to do certain tasks which may be seen to be unethical or gross but the Y amount is significant. It's the programmer that chooses.