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dofm 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Good people refuse to do bad things

> that's the core of what most of us writing software are doing

Is that necessarily so?

arrowleaf 24 days ago [–]

No, there are many mission-driven companies from enterprises to startups, but in the USA most software engineers work for Fortune 500 (or Russell 2000, or aspiring) whose underlying mission is extracting profit from revenue.

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