Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
by johnisgood on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:09PM
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I have been working on automating data entry, and the consequences of this is many people (in this case Indians) losing their jobs. I am facing a moral dilemma. I have been writing free software for my entire life, I volunteer, but I live in really poor conditions. I want to get forward somehow, and this seems to be my best chance of getting forward at this point in time and space. I am probably not going to go through with it. It seems to be the case that my principles, my moral values have been holding me back from improving my life. I do not want to lie to people, I do not want to deceive people, I do not want to fsck them over in any way. I do not want to contribute to anything nefarious. But from where I am (the bottom), it is extremely hard to climb up without doing that. :/
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