At the end of the day, the core motivation behind most, if not all, " ethics education programs " is fundamentally to ask CS students—the engineers, product managers, and founders of the future—to care about other people, to consider one's place in the complex, fragile fabric of society, to participate in building a better world rather than take... See more

For example, the exploitation that tech companies euphemistically call "gig work" relies on minimum wage stagnation and the collapse of social mobility. Grubhub stealing drivers' tips, or Uber and Lyft spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the California Prop. 22 fight to ensure that they could continue denying benefits to their drivers both... See more