This feels overly patronizing

▲ godelski 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably because I repeated "don't get distracted". But if you read the article then I think it'll take on a different context, as I'm mimicking the author, including their short paragraph style.

▲ user2722 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I get really annoyed at those articles which advocate the developer to sacrifice themselves towards a better future.

Companies externalize costs. I refuse to be the one, as an individual, with the burden of fixing society ills to my own detriment.

Tell me to get into politics, join an association, whatever. Now, as an individual, lose money for morals? No thank you. I may, and probably will, do it -- but don't expect I do it. I have no business, in a society with less and less public services, to harm myself and my family for refusing to do well paying jobs.

I will externalise those costs as much as possible. I will bring awareness. I will write letters. But don't ask me to leave a well paying job -- that's someone else job to fix.

	▲	godelski an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		`> as an individual` But that's the problem. Your logic applies to everyone in an organization (a business, a family, a country, and so on). The organizations actions are not the result of any single actors decisions, even if weight isn't equal. The decisions of an organization are made of the decisions of the collective. The agglomeration of them. And that's why everyone's decisions matter. Because you don't know when your actions have more weight than when they have less. We're all in this together. One way or another, your actions affect others. Your actions aren't in isolation. Conversely this is true for others, and I suspect you would rather others treat you well, right? So which feedback loop do you want you contribute to? That's the only question there is
	▲	_Microft an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		´"That's not my department", says Wernher von Braun.´