Good, they want you not asking a single question, your paycheck obviously requires it.

I don't see how this follows

Where are you? Are you doing anything at all? Is commenting on Hacker News and taking a paycheck and maybe donating to some politicians all you're willing to do?

Your employer does not think anything they do is 'wrong' and neither should you when your employer is the 'victim' of one of your 'immoral' actions. Strange that they leave morality to the employee like yourself to impose on yourself to make yourself work harder for your employer. "If I bill for 40 hours and only work 10 while saving them millions of dollars, it's actually immoral on my part." You are literally admitting your shame for your own self-described immoral actions against your employer while completely blind or willfully ignorant of their proud immorality.

Hopefully you aren't one of those "well I signed the contract that let me be abused, I have no right to complain about my material conditions" kind of people. Under zero circumstances will your employer ever show you that level of empathy towards you, your coworkers, and your families. Under zero circumstances do they 'earn' your moral compass.

at least you're doubling down on your ignorance!

It's as insulting as M$ is

Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes?

"M$" may not be insulting in itself, but it's certainly typically associated with insultingly poor writing.

> Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes?

There has not.

How is M$ insulting? It just looks like a leetspeak version of MS.

It is supposed to indicate Microsoft cares only about money, which to me too, seems in the same league as microslop, i.e. mildly insulting but really not rude enough to be worth censoring.

As I said, I was not aware of the insult.

Unfortunately most engineers irrationally hate unions

Unions would’ve been useful at a time CEO’s are salivating at the idea of slashing jobs and replacing SWEs with AI.

I think it would still be useful. Call my cynical but gone are the days where the individual comp and benefits available to SWEs outweigh the benefits of collective bargaining.

Though if ~~apocalypse~~ war happens and all of our built tech goes away, we are in for a serious survival issue.

A lot closer than you think, too

It never left, welcome back to software engineering though!

Thank you, I'm glad to be back!

You may just be an annoying neighbor, have a wonderful day!

This is how capitalism works, and what happens at a large scale, even if you don’t like it.

Just want to say, the "stuff" before is absolutely necessary groundwork to even begin comprehending the implications.