Proceeds from many actions people take on a daily basis go to companies that actively support, design, and deploy technologies for use by the military.
Seems like whataboutism to me. Other people and companies doing a bad thing doesn't make doing the bad thing ok. Stopping one entity from doing evil is still a good thing even if you haven't stopped all evil everywhere.
Rather than complaining about people doing a small thing to improve the world, we should consider how we can scale up the small thing into something bigger.
To be specific, technologists like the people on Hacker News need to take a stand against providing technology (or funds) to the military. The industry should unionize so that programmers taking a stand against providing technology to the military can protest without being fired. The industry should produce a code of ethics that includes not selling tech to the military, and we should hold corporations to ethical standards.
ganoushoreilly|5 years ago
skyfaller|5 years ago
Rather than complaining about people doing a small thing to improve the world, we should consider how we can scale up the small thing into something bigger.
To be specific, technologists like the people on Hacker News need to take a stand against providing technology (or funds) to the military. The industry should unionize so that programmers taking a stand against providing technology to the military can protest without being fired. The industry should produce a code of ethics that includes not selling tech to the military, and we should hold corporations to ethical standards.
angelbar|5 years ago