How many people have you all automated out of their jobs? None of you shed a single tear for them. Now that it's your turn, suddenly it's a problem?

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overgard an hour ago | parent [-]

This is such a ridiculous take I hear all the time. The shitty ethics of some people do not represent the ethics of an entire profession. Most programmers are not automating people out of jobs. I've been professionally employed as a software developer for 20 years and I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Hopefully sometimes it improves their job.

	▲	matheusmoreira 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Doubt. Whatever it is your web app does, I bet corporations would have been forced to hire more people to do it for them, were it not for you. And there's absolutely nothing "unethical" about it either. Toil is meant to be automated away. What I can't take is programmers thinking they're somehow above this. The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.