Hello first world IT professionals

We need to have a talk.

I know you have a lot of fun at work and are getting paid quite hansomly. I’m sure you are great at your job and put in a lot of work to get to where you are. However, there is an inconvenient truth.

Yep, while we happily work for various companies the world is getting worse. Not just worse in a mild sort of way. Worse in the sense that the future of humanity is uncertain.

We are greatly damaging the environment

We are exploiting the large majority of poor people at an unprecendented level

This is occurring legally within global capitalism.

Democracy / capitalism are 300 years old.

Modern science and technology.

Open source rocking it.

The power of iteration.

The power of crowd sourcing