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Re:If high street shopping was like online shopping [video] by onion2k on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:35AM (#24406742)
Developers think other developers are just able to say "f you" to their boss and leave the job and get a new one next day, but this is not the reality.

I didn't actually suggest that. All I said was that people should leave bad jobs. That doesn't have to happen overnight. However, if you recognise that your job is bad and you're not actively looking for a new one then you've made a choice to stay. You've decided that something is worth staying in the job for. At that point everything that you do in the job that's bad, like implementing features that are awful for users, is on you. That's your responsibility. You've chosen (for example) a higher wage at the expense of making thousands of people miserable. You need to own that.

Re:If high street shopping was like online shopping [video] by dalbasal on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:44AM (#24406786)
This is a little melodramatic, IMO.

I agree that developers have agency, but (a) most of the stuff this video is parodying is near universal. FB, Google, Spotify, Amazon etc. all have this stuff. (b) If you are going to make "the moral choice" then UI clunkiness might not be the issue you care about most. Maybe you care about UI clunkiness, basic labor rights for lower end employees, environmental morals, monopolies, tax evasion, etc.

Choices are complex.