> I just find this sudden moral outrage by tech workers to be quite intellectually lazy and revisionist about what it is we were all doing just a few years ago.

You are right, thus downvoted, but still I see current outcry as positive.

I appreciate this and many of the other perspectives I’m encountering in the replies. I agree with you that the current outcry is probably positive, so I’m a little disappointed in how I framed my earlier comment. It was more contrarian than necessary.

We tech workers have mostly been villains for a long time, and foot stomping about AI does not absolve us of all of the decades of complicity in each new wave of bullshit.

> Many tech workers viewed the software they worked on in the past as useful in some way for society

Ah yes, crypto, Facebook, privacy destruction etc. Indeed, they made world such a nice place!

I can feel your anger. Gooooood.

> Only for the true capitalist, the achievement of turning human ingenuity into yet another commodity to be mass-produced is a good thing.

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

> If you think about economic value

I don't, and the fact you do hints to what's wrong with the world.

Postal service is a public service, thus there shouldn't be any contracts, TOS or competition.

Sad to see civilizational damages caused by neoliberalism, even in such countries as Denmark.

I generally agree (my post history should back my anti-neoliberalism), but I suppose eventually the postal service becomes a relic that can't operate on the same terms. At what loss should we accept a letter to be delivered? Or should they charge the real cost of delivering it?

EU governments are cutting costs everywhere, this is the end result of recession-era policies.

Of course it could also be due to mismanagement. If Amazon is allowed to subcontract its own delivery people, and somehow that's profitable, public post companies might find ways to stay relevant.

I am for postal service being reformed and handle digital communication as well.

But let's not forget that network and electricity are not given once and for all. We may end up experiencing quite long periods without them. Country that would get rid of related infra and know-how would be helpless.

Internet, electricity, all other utilities are usually profitable. In fact, these are the ones that get privatised largely because they're profitable.

> and isn't in direct competition with Apple.

Of course they are, they are on the same stock market.

What, are you one of those that believe competition is still about capturing markets and appeasing customers?

> Yeah, they seem to be moving from innovators to exploiting their user base

Wow, who could have expected that to happen?!

> Or people’s overspending is propping up the economy

Good thing people are still religious and have a god to worship and make sacrifices.

Soon a lot of people will go out of the way and try to convince you that Rust is most productive language, functions having longer signatures than their bodies is actually a virtue, and putting .clone(), Rc<> or Arc<> everywhere to avoid borrow-checker complaints makes Rust easier and faster to write than languages that doesn't force you to do so.

Of course it is a hyperbole, but sadly not that large.