> The torment nexus was built by engineers. Not management.

Before the more recent wave of successful tech startups (say, from 2010 on), a very large amount of programmers were incredibly sensitive to anything related to topics like (posisbility of) surveillance, privacy, authorities (including government), centralized infrastructures, DRM etc.

In my feeling, the only reason why this mindset shifted is because from this wave on, in the USA, programmers were showered in money.

The interesting question rather is: now that tech companies want to become more frugal with respect to paying programmers, will the mindset among programmers shift back or not?

Only because murdering your project manager for terrible ideas is illegal

Nuclear bomb was built by scientists and they weren't the one that fired it, what's your point?

And engineers couldn't get rich themselves without the billionaires shelling out for them to build their torment nexuses.

I want to get rich too. I want to live a good life, and provide for my family. I don't want to just survive. So I can't say I don't empathize.

Right, workers build the world. We should run it. Actually. Why does management get to tell us what to do without elections?