There was something in the news about how (part of) the opiate crisis was basically caused by ad-tech.
Doctors were using free software that used dark patterns to get them to prescribe more painkillers, but the actual scandal was that the people making the software were getting kickbacks for it.
Sorry I don't have the link handy, but I probably read about it on HN.
Guess what, instead of blaming one industry or the other, we should look up and we'd see immediately that it's all a result of profit motive in an immoral society.
A limited number of biomed researchers are involved n opiates. A very significant, arguably a plurality of developers are involved in and tech, either directly writing it or their business being paid from ads.
No, come on. That's the imaginary world where everybody is in SF and works for startups or Google. There was a recent thread about enterprise software that discussed SAP and there were all these people who were like "what's THAT??"
It's like thinking of everything being made in China because all that you notice day-to-day is consumer products.
Edit: I thought about the word "plurality" some more, and technically, anything can be a plurality if you fragment all the other categories enough, I suppose.
Are we seriously doing a contest for the worse worker? This is a war between the poor. Can we PLEASE realize that behind any of those issues there is just a handful of profit hungry capitalists?
Now isn't this the deepest irony...