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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 30-May-2018 01:15:48 EDT Strypey

   @starbreaker @h This is a version of "just following orders". To me it's one of many good reasons not to have hierarchies. But putting on my 'middle class chap who drinks coffee at Starbucks' hat for a sec, I still think a) quit, or b) sabotage, is a false dichotomy. It assumes corporate employees can only approach issue of social responsibility as atomized individuals. The bigots who called the cops on those two black men in Starbucks weren't "just following orders", quite the opposite.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 30-May-2018 01:18:49 EDT Strypey

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      @starbreaker @h Eg if professional developers formed a trade union, they could decide as a profession what is and is not acceptable practice in software. There would be no point firing one tech worker who refused to follow an unethical order, because a) the boss knows no worker will follow that order (unless maybe there are scabs) and b) the union would have the resources to defend the worker from unjustified workplace discipline.