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There is a problem with software engineers. Narcissism.

Its disturbing how many software discussion boards routinely refer to other people as dumb or ignorant.

It's as if everyone should leave their area of expertise and become software engineers.

This kind of hubris that allows some to think they are better than others only paves the way for people to dehumanize others and behave unethically.

And we have seen after decades of posing as champions of freedom and liberty nearly the entire industry has been co-opted into the surveillance economy or state surveillance programs without so much as a murmur with Snowden left holding the baby of these pretensions.



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