>Just think back to why you studied computer science or coding. I hope it wasn't to help build spy tools on your friends & families.
So what do you think of all the people working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft? All of them are spying on everyone too.
Countless software engineers work in the web space, where much of the money for continued operation comes from advertising, which these days includes tracking and spyware.
Honestly, can you point me to anything in Silicon Valley or the tech industry that's actually an ethical business?
And even if you find someplace that isn't involved in spying, you get places like Uber where sexual harassment of female employees is encouraged and promoted.
AFAICT, if you're worried about doing work that doesn't compromise your morals in any way, and really does contribute positively to society somehow, you'll have to do something like avionics work: low-level code to make critical devices work as safely as possible. But even this has descended a lot from the military realm, so I don't think that's really safe either. You could also work on space probes, but that's a problem too because those are all built by defense contractors and research organizations that get most of their revenue from the DoD. Maybe the automotive sector.
So what do you think of all the people working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft? All of them are spying on everyone too.
Countless software engineers work in the web space, where much of the money for continued operation comes from advertising, which these days includes tracking and spyware.
Honestly, can you point me to anything in Silicon Valley or the tech industry that's actually an ethical business?
And even if you find someplace that isn't involved in spying, you get places like Uber where sexual harassment of female employees is encouraged and promoted.
AFAICT, if you're worried about doing work that doesn't compromise your morals in any way, and really does contribute positively to society somehow, you'll have to do something like avionics work: low-level code to make critical devices work as safely as possible. But even this has descended a lot from the military realm, so I don't think that's really safe either. You could also work on space probes, but that's a problem too because those are all built by defense contractors and research organizations that get most of their revenue from the DoD. Maybe the automotive sector.