Admittedly I'm still just an engineering student, but I for one absolutely do have an interest in helping the working class. Which makes being most interested in automation engineering slightly uncomfortable, but I've at least got a solid aim at a nieche branch in agricultural resource management.
Hell even one of the most Musk worshipping rich kids in my current class is for the idea of giving everyone ownership of a robot or a few at birth so they can live off of the revenue generated by the robot once they can't find work due to automation. Which certainly sounds strange to me, as it seems like universal basic income with extra steps, but it's a form of caring.
Don't paint the people making the stuff as villains because the people paying us to make the stuff pay us more than they pay others. In fact, I'd argue that doing so is playing into the hands of the wealthiest part of society, because if we see the people working in the "middle" and those working on the factory floor etc as enemies rather than as a group of people being more or less screwed over by the giant ticks drinking all our blood, we'll be at each others throats instead of making joint demands for a liveable future for everyone.
That's nit saying there aren't amoral shits in engineering, of course there are, but we're not the ones in power, at least not usually. I haven't looked all that much into it myself, but from my understanding mr musk even treats the engineers working to bring his fantasy projects to life like absolute shit.
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Admittedly I'm still just an engineering student, but I for one absolutely do have an interest in helping the working class. Which makes being most interested in automation engineering slightly uncomfortable, but I've at least got a solid aim at a nieche branch in agricultural resource management.
Hell even one of the most Musk worshipping rich kids in my current class is for the idea of giving everyone ownership of a robot or a few at birth so they can live off of the revenue generated by the robot once they can't find work due to automation. Which certainly sounds strange to me, as it seems like universal basic income with extra steps, but it's a form of caring.
Don't paint the people making the stuff as villains because the people paying us to make the stuff pay us more than they pay others. In fact, I'd argue that doing so is playing into the hands of the wealthiest part of society, because if we see the people working in the "middle" and those working on the factory floor etc as enemies rather than as a group of people being more or less screwed over by the giant ticks drinking all our blood, we'll be at each others throats instead of making joint demands for a liveable future for everyone.
That's nit saying there aren't amoral shits in engineering, of course there are, but we're not the ones in power, at least not usually. I haven't looked all that much into it myself, but from my understanding mr musk even treats the engineers working to bring his fantasy projects to life like absolute shit.
Edit: forgot to finish a sentence, now finished