Software development has become a miserable boiler room of intense pressure. The folks making higher level decisions (eg Product managers) are in a better position to understand the impact of what they’re doing but most people in tech by far are focused on the numbers, they don’t have time to think about anything else, especially in an environment where 99.999% don’t give a rats ass about the impact of what they’re doing other than to talk about their PERCEIVED notion of how they are going to change the world for the better and talking about that at parties and investor pitches.

A good example is when I did work at Tesla…it didn’t take long for me to realize that people where all there to make money off the stock and have Elon on their resume. Not a single person demonstrated any interest whatsoever in environmental implications of what they were doing. Tesla is just like other startups in that respect . Saving the environment is not why they are there…it’s only a storyline, a fable(and not quite accurate) that keeps them motivated.