Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber

I'm an older engineer, and I am highly critical of ALL engineers who go to work for Uber. I find all of Uber terribly "problematical" for how they treat their drivers who are mostly poor and often people of color, how they break laws, how they use predatory pricing to drive out competition.

And I am enormously curious why this discussion of ethics in engineering, which was huge in the Post Vietnam era when I was in school seems so absent now.

Our professors had worked on the Manhattan Project and a good deal of our culture at our school was about the ethics of participating on projects like the A bomb, about participating in the military industrial complex, but also about the ethics of working for scuzzy horrible companies in particular.

I am appalled and outraged at what Fowler endured, but I am also stupefied as to how so many engineers can even go to work for Uber in the first place. I find it absolutely disgusting that engineers would enable Uber's predation on society.

God forbid I become CEO of a company, I would positively (and legally) exclude former Uber engineers from my company.

/r/hackernews Thread Link - susanjfowler.com