• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hi what do you do for work?

    Well, I work for a healthcare company that creates electric wheelchairs and apps to use them.

    Wow that is amazing, that sounds so rewarding! What specifically do you do?

    Thanks! I designed the pricing structure so that each aspect of the wheelchair experience is gated behind carefully designed paywalls that are significant enough to help me my boss get a good bonus at the end of the year but not significant enough that all those poor people out there can’t afford it if they have too. Ideally the cost is always a bit more than people can afford to pay since usually people have more you can squeeze out of their social connections if the need is desperate enough (we are optimizing right now for pricing structures that most encourage customers to make gofundme’s to engage with our products which is cool to be part of a new project).

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      Honestly the only response to something this callous is “Wow, hey do you wanna check out this really cool blender?” and then shove your Defense Blender into their face.

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      I genuinely don’t understand how people that work for companies like that can sleep at night. Like no matter how much evidence I see that the vast majority of people don’t put any effort or conscious thought into being a “good” person and only think about themselves and maybe their close family, I just can’t accept it.

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        A spouse, housing, and 2.5 kids is quite a lot of motivation for people to work in the coal mines knowing they’ll be at high risk of lung cancer.

        Now switch the damage to groups unseen instead of yourself. Yep… People just trying to survive.

        It fucking sucks.

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        All the stuff like that is done by folks on the Bastard Committee. While the programming and stuff is done in pieces small enough to not get recognized, and then later assembled by the Bastard Programmer.