Technology

i did this about six months ago with the public institution path that the author described and it was because i learned that i was helping to build bombs and also because lemmy taught me that i was entrenching american empirical hegemony upon this world.

the financial waste i'm seeing in the public institution i joined is staggering compared to the faang and old-silicon companies that i've worked for, but it's on par with the 2 other public institutions that I worked in over the last 25-ish years. i suspect that it has something to do with the experience/skill level disparities between the public and private sectors and, every time i bring this up w my management, their response is always the same: we lack the armies of engineers it takes to reduce costs.

this response was identical at each public institution and i think i heard it more often than most because of my open source proclivities. it's clear it's a bullshit talking point that the vendors fed to my management like the american oligarchy feeds to americans about 3rd party voting and i think i can smell some of it to in this article when it suggests working for an ngo.

the article only focuses on the ostensible mission statements of ngo's, but too conveniently fails to mention that a huge majority of the ngo's who can afford to pay tech workers a livable wage are sponsored by government organizations like usaid. like me, the tech workers might have successfully avoided having such a direct impact on building those bombs, but they're still re-enforcing the hegemony that uses them on innocent people.