![]() Sure, you can voice concerns and try to change things, but if the decision is between "do a thing users will hate but will make the company 2% more per year" vs "don't do this thing and hope people will like us more for it".yeah, they're gonna find someone to get it done. The money is too lucrative and there are too many qualified people to really have much power to "do the right thing" in most big corps. If devs push back, they get replaced with devs who don't. Even in those cases, if you try to take some ethical high-road that doesn't maximize profits or serve some VP's ego, you'll likely find yourself relieved of your responsibilities in short order.Ĭhain of command, but also investor pressure to do everything even remotely legal to maximize profits is more to blame. That's like blaming irresponsible mining practices on the miners and not the people who are actually deciding to mine in the first place, or even where exactly to mine. They built it because someone in Product or AdTech dreamt it up, sold it to some VP or directory, and got some project + product managers to run with it. >somewhere, there is a software developer-with a human name-who built this automatic ban system don't have some pretty epic sob story about how they can't get another job and really really need the money for some reason (I'm going to leave this exact line up to the reader, as it is frankly negligible: the vast majority of the people who work at these big tech companies are not hurting for the money and are often part of a whole host of other problems in localized inequality)-it should be made clear to them that you are not OK with their moral tradeoffs. somewhere, there is a software developer-with a human name-who built this automatic ban system.Īt the very least, if you have any friends who work for these companies, and if they aren't actively working from within to make something better-or like. "But I only work there, I don't make decisions!" people will claim yet, at the end of the day, they are not only directly enabling these injustices but are very directly benefiting from them! We need to stop talking about these big tech companies as if they are abstract all-powerful gods acting from afar. The first step is to accept that, if you work for one of these companies, you are the injustice. ![]() I mean, many of the people on this website are the people who work for and enable these very companies in their injustice. ![]() > I know, we're just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make/play video games. Imagine a nonprofit Adwords that paid out near 100% of proceeds in an egalitarian way, instead of using a winner-take-all algorithm that dumps more money than God on people who are already rich. Google and even DuckDuckGo are so SEO'd that I can't find it. There's a website that pays you tips for your traffic, it's a synonym for gratuity but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment. Or how to protect people from exploitation. Of course I have absolutely no idea how to do that. Get back to building a positive, thriving future together, instead of whatever all this is. But we're the ones who could truly disrupt online advertising and get the web back to how it used to work 20 years ago, where the average person could earn residual income online with a few clicks. ![]() Maybe it's time to not let it stand anymore? I know, we're just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make/play video games. ![]() Maybe the biggest injustice on the web currently. The fact that there is no recourse or viable competition, strikes me as an injustice. ![]()
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