Is it moral for a framework of society to permit one person having more wealth than 1.5 million households while childhood poverty and homelessness runs rampant? 🤔
Corporate algorithms don’t understand human ethics. If a human in a corporation or their government started making ethical choices they’d quickly lose their job and likely become unemployable.
A lone individual can make moral choices to preserve self (like most of us) OR ethical ones that serve the collective (like Luigi). We cannot have both unless we rise up together.
Workers of the world, unite!
Oh, it’s way worse than merely the algorithms.
You see, the algorithms are trained or designed according to the choices of people, the ones selected from the various possibilities to be put in place and used being the ones that people chose to put in place and use, and even after their nasty (sometimes deadly) effects for others have been observed they are kept in use by people.
The Algorithm isn’t a force of nature or a entity with its own will, it’s an agent of people, and in a company were the people creating the algorithms are paid for and follow other people’s orders about how it should be, the people with for whom the Algorithm is an agent are the decision makers.
Deflecting the blame with technocratic excuses (such as that it’s the Algorithm) is a very old and often used Neoliberal swindle (really just a Tech variant of rule-makers blaming problems on “the rules” as if there is nothing they can do about it, when they themselves had a saying on the design of those rules and knew exactly what they would lead to)
My point was that the individual is powerless. Your only counterargument is “neoliberal” ad hominem. That’s not going to work, particularly not when speaking to a data analyst with more than a decade of experience.
