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schubidubiduba a day ago

The system in which those companies exist is explicitly designed though to strip away any humanity or moral qualms as much as possible. Dividing it on the shoulders of many people, making nobody in particular feel responsible for the damages themselves. Gaslighting employees into thinking they are doing the "lesser evil" or something. Just following commans of their boss.

parineum a day ago | parent [-]

> The system in which those companies exist is explicitly designed though to strip away any humanity or moral qualms as much as possible.

Citation needed.

fwn 20 hours ago | parent [-]

If this area of research interests you, look into Thompsons "Designing Responsibility: The Problem of Many Hands in Complex Organizations" from 2017 or Bovens ur-werk "The Quest for Responsibility" from 1998.

Diffusion of moral responsibility in complex organizations is not a new observation.

The Wikipedia article leans a bit too much on the psychology and not on the organizational design / decision architecture, but is still a good entry point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility