Every story like this has me thinking about two things:
1. Companies have no soul. They are, by design, just chasing revenue. Everything else is just a risk to be factored.
2. There are real humans at these companies who choose to take part in the business and design and engineering, etc.
I don’t think these humans have no soul (though some won’t), and I don’t think they’re stupid (though some are). I think it’s just very, very easy to create a system of people collectively doing evil things where no one person carries the burden of evil individually enough to really feel sick enough with what they’re contributing to.
1. Companies have no soul. They are, by design, just chasing revenue. Everything else is just a risk to be factored.
2. There are real humans at these companies who choose to take part in the business and design and engineering, etc.
I don’t think these humans have no soul (though some won’t), and I don’t think they’re stupid (though some are). I think it’s just very, very easy to create a system of people collectively doing evil things where no one person carries the burden of evil individually enough to really feel sick enough with what they’re contributing to.