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Sure, but that’s fine. I don’t have any allegiance to other software engineers.


Do you think other people’s sense of ethics should be so transactional towards you? Companies that might sell your data to shitty date brokers have no allegiance to you. Muggers have no allegiance to the people they mug. They’re both executing their professional tasks that benefit the people they have allegience to. They’re contributing to the velocity of money in our society. The data might even be used to market beneficial goods and service. So… thumbs up? Or would you feel differently if it was someone else profiting at your expense.


Yes, none of these guys have any allegiance to me. Trying to form a union of muggers with a guy trying to mug me won’t work. You’re welcome to try it if you think it will work for you but I’m not going to.


Copout.




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