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I think i crossed the line this month and joined the elusive evil people that ruin the world by hoarding money, killing the enviroment, removing civil rights and all that other stuff that happens every day but noone seems to be actually responsible.
So yesterday i noticed that i am now actively contributing to the evil effort despite having no evil intentions, is this what happens to most people and the actual evil is in the system?
I know many of the super rich also arent actually evil like Bill Gates or the Google founder etc.
So, whats so evil about what i do?
I designed some systems for a bigger company that is testing their product for functionality, uneducated workers manually insert the product and then the electronics and mechanics get tested.
They have a shitty work, no sitting, constantly switching products and a boring screen full of techical measurrements they dont understand.
Now I upgrade the software because its good money and also i dont want lose future contracts by annoying them.
The update?
Track statisics about breaks and speed and DISPLAY A LIVE PERFORMANCE GRAPH ON THEIR WORKSTATION.
Yeah, the workers will now stare at a graph that tracks their speed and is evaluating them every second of their miserable day.
 
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
did you make a girl cry? did you all kill a beloved team during their very last team league match? did you deny a dream finals in las vegas while forcing your opponent to scream "imba imba imba" in agony? did you use an abominable composition to win a title? did you immediately fall into obscurity just to rub it in? did you beat someone in a qualifier while his grandma was on her deathbed?
all no? i give you 1 out of a possible 10 snipers.
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I know many of the super rich also arent actually evil like Bill Gates or the Google founder etc.
Wtf is this blog?
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A month ago, I wrote a feature that allowed a missile system to work on a multi-core chip.
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On October 06 2015 02:31 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:
A month ago, I wrote a feature that allowed a missile system to work on a multi-core chip.
Thus preventing hundreds of collateral deaths! :D. One can hope.
Anyway OP whoever decided that people should be subjected to live stats of their performance is to blame, not the person who did their job and made the thing. Gotta admit it's a bit fucked up.
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you are not evil but now you have a hand in it
welcome to system
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We pollute, we make sweatshop workers suffer for our clothing, we waste clean water, and do a laundry list of many bad things which we inadvertently do through our actions. You can't beat yourself over developing software that manages their efficiency when there's nothing inherently evil about it.
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I think part of quality of life is feeling good about the work you do. There are so many programmers who can feel happy and say 'I make things that make people's lives better.'
You might want to think of doing something which doesn't disgust you, since you are in an industry which gives you the luxury of choice. Someone else will do the job you're doing now, and the world won't be a better place, but at least you don't have to be part of the problem.
So many times I wonder how people can lose all their pride and contribute to creating something horrible. And sometimes the answer is just that they do it to survive, because they don't feel they have other options. But other times it's just something like this, you have an option, but it's inconvenient or the money is better. The money is better because lots of people don't want to do this kind of work.
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Evil does not lie in the execution, in the "what". Evil lies in the intent, the "why". You did no evil, brother.
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you are evil like Hank Scorpio w/o the panache
good enough for me!
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On October 06 2015 06:34 OtherWorld wrote:
Evil does not lie in the execution, in the "what". Evil lies in the intent, the "why". You did no evil, brother.
One could argue that evil lies very much in the what of things, and that intent is secondary to that. One must shoulder the burden of consequence regardless of good intentions...Very much intent vs. impact.
And if it lies in the what of things, then it is what the OP decides to do/not do about his guilty conscience that matters.
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On October 06 2015 08:47 Qwyn wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2015 06:34 OtherWorld wrote:
Evil does not lie in the execution, in the "what". Evil lies in the intent, the "why". You did no evil, brother. One could argue that evil lies very much in the what of things, and that intent is secondary to that. One must shoulder the burden of consequence regardless of good intentions...Very much intent vs. impact. And if it lies in the what of things, then it is what the OP decides to do/not do about his guilty conscience that matters.
I was trying to cheer him up ):
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Once you have a family moral decisions about work get even harder. Love trumps ethics and you'll stretch your morals in order to maintain a stable income for your kids. People don't set out to be evil, most just end up prioritizing those closest to them over strangers.
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you are a very thoughtful person.
have you ever read Hannah Arendt?
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On October 06 2015 02:45 Djzapz wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2015 02:31 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:
A month ago, I wrote a feature that allowed a missile system to work on a multi-core chip. Anyway OP whoever decided that people should be subjected to live stats of their performance is to blame, not the person who did their job and made the thing. Gotta admit it's a bit fucked up.
So by this logic you can't blame someone for building torture devices? Just doing your job does not absolve you of what is done with your work.
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On October 08 2015 11:39 Scarecrow wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2015 02:45 Djzapz wrote:On October 06 2015 02:31 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:
A month ago, I wrote a feature that allowed a missile system to work on a multi-core chip. Anyway OP whoever decided that people should be subjected to live stats of their performance is to blame, not the person who did their job and made the thing. Gotta admit it's a bit fucked up. So by this logic you can't blame someone for building torture devices? Just doing your job does not absolve you of what is done with your work.
Says the man using a computer that is the result of the labor of hundreds of sweatshop workers. That said, maybe you're right.
Still, I think you can't let those things weigh on your conscience too much because it'll be bad for you. We're all guilty of this. Our extravagant lifestyles are afforded by the misery of others. Whether you indirectly make life a living hell for people by allowing your boss to monitor human beings like cattle, or you buy an iPhone built with the blood and tears of people who's lives you could turn around with literally a week's worth of your wage, we're all doing the selfish thing because it's normal... hell, it's valorized. My engineer friend is a superstar in his firm for having designed a machine that'll almost certainly lead to 50-ish layoffs over the next few years in a local enterprise.
In an odd and unpredictable twist, this post ends with the staggering declaration that we're all kind of evil. And perhaps what separates OP from actually being "evil" is that he feels guilt. It's just about the most courageous thing a person will do, these days. Feel guilt, then retreat to a comfortable state of ambivalence while doing nothing about it. It's what I do sometimes.
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Do you feel it would be possible to act courageously? What would it look like?
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