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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by ytygg775 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:40AM (#33981318)
> If it pays more to work for a crypto exchange or the next data-stalking start-up than to cure cancer then most of the knowledge people will work on them.

Building stronger morals could also help.

Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by 662587649495439 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:23AM (#33982536)
Stronger morals, perhaps, but also redirecting the collective moral compass from favouring the individual to favouring the collective. Today, one can feasibly frame working for a megacorp for $$$ as morally just to provide one's own family with a comfortable, safe life. Morality focused on the individual.

Things like effective altruism seem to be an attempt at redirection, but they have their own problems. Until someone or something succeeds with redirection, having stronger morals will only make the problem worse.

Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by shanebellone on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:43AM (#33981926)
Moral high ground is low intelligence.
Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by namaria on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:16AM (#33997051)
This is just yet another "if people would be just so" brand of wishful thinking.