The people who are complicit to violence perpetrated by the company they work for are inherently making the same decision as those who are activists. Either way you end up with a programmerocracy, so why not try to reduce harm on others then? Maybe what you advocate for isn’t perfect, but if you can’t avoid politics in your workplace, why don’t you fight for what you believe in?
> Political changes aren't objectively "for the better". If that was true, they wouldn't be political decisions, but business decisions.
Very few things are objective. Some would argue that nothing is objective. This is not a reason not to act.
> we resort to distributed opinion instead
This is not true. I think it is safe to say that political decisions in our global society are overwhelming made by a very small group of highly elite individuals.
Political changes aren't objectively "for the better". If that was true, they wouldn't be political decisions, but business decisions. The whole reason they're political is that we can't determine if they're good or bad scientifically so we resort to distributed opinion instead.