alt Hacker NewsMore specifically, someone actively building on top of Amazon decrying the exploitation of workers and the environment is demonstrably hypocritical.
And "engineers building things to spec" are not the same as those giving the orders, but they should take a measure of responsibility for the things they build. I think most people generally agree about the culpability of those following orders when people are harmed. I'm not even saying they should necessarily be held accountable; just that moralizing about it is hypocritical.
"Anyone who uses < public cloud computing > is hypocritical" is a pretty insane take, even for HN.
All technologies have benefits and costs — choosing and using a technology does not imply the nonexistence of tradeoffs. One can give sufficient consideration to the downsides, and then determine that the upsides outweigh them. It's not rocket science.