Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.

You’re the one who is not open minded. You simply could have googled the question. Instead you want to stir up shit, because one some level people who are truly curious aren’t going to ask questions in a forum. Only troublemakers do so.

Oh I am thinking of them… how to murder shareholders in various unique ways… could be neat game idea too!

I think I can distill many of the replies to this question in a few checks that may apply generally (exceptions abound, and i could just be wrong)

1. Are you intimately familiar (subject matter expert level) with the nasty outcomes of what you would be doing on a daily basis at this company? If yes its better it was YOU and not somebody else.

2. How much separation is there between what you do and the nasty outcomes? If you pull the trigger on a drone… I get thats unacceptable to some people.

3. Does not doing the activity make something else even more worse? (Frying pan vs. Fire dilemma)

4. Are you only doing this because there’s no other real choice? (Poverty)

So people never accomplished anything on Unix?

Don’t treat existing code/design/archtecture is sacred until it’s backed up by static analysis proving it is bug-free.

What do you suggest? Only the state can have monopoly on violence? Only the government which is controlled by rich people can use violence?

Behqving like my dad: whiny, removed, gaslighting Son of a moron who blames the person if their process doesn’t work.

Oh ok i am dumb. I misread the comment

boring

Boring is good. I too would like to live in a boring village, Just loaf around and watch leaves fall or something.

Choosing to play is still immoral even if that’s how the game works.

It’s easy to make some smart bets when you can make many bets and fail over and over and not become destitute.

“Authoritarian-left” hmmm…

Fake my death, Collect the paycheck, Settle in Hawaii or something.

Then you should hopefully limit your distrust to Covid and not extend the same to Measles vaccine.