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Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?

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Re: Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?

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I realize it's kind of a game of musical chairs when companies work so hard to shut down various forms of {labor,equality,ethics} activism in tech, but I found myself wondering at the end of this whether there are groups that are active now, and how to find them. Organizing anything is a coordination problem, but organizing in a context where one is opposed by companies who have positioned themselves as bottlenecks t…

I'm not sure I followed all that, but maybe check out the EFF: https://www.eff.org

Like, fair. I like the EFF's work a lot, but I think they primarily function on the level of public policy and sometimes mounting strategic legal action, and I was more asking about whether there were ground level orgs in operation, unions, advocacy groups of tech workers, that kind of thing

Re: Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?

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Social media is incredibly destructive, yet look at all the money we've made from it. Probably one in 5 people believed in "connecting the world"...

The early days of Facebook still seem great. I could connect with friends and family and that was it. Now it's all business and politics. Perhaps this was inevitable and it should never have been developed in the first place I don't know. Is it moral to build something for the $$$ because if you don't someone else will? Probably not.

Instagram is going the same way honestly, it took a bit longer, but I'm at the stage where I just have to unfollow nut jobs. People who used to use it in quite a lighthearted fun way too.
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