Ethical design begins with the design of the organisation. • How is it funded? • What is its business model? (How does it make money?) If the answers are, respectively, “venture capital” &/or “monetising data”, we can’t even begin to speak of ethically designing the products.
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Replying to @aral @AllBetzAreOff
But like, aren’t 99% of tech start-ups funded by VCs at some point?
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Yep. I disagree with the absolutism: I think we must still discuss ethical designs under capitalism. Refusing to do so is abdicating responsibility, awaiting a better day that isn't coming anytime soon. At the same time, he's right: VC and data mining do not make it easy.
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Well put
@temujin9, and I think ethical design conversations are especially crucial under those conditions, exactly because they are at odds1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Discuss it under capitalism, by all means but not under unethical business models. If the business model of your corporation is to monetise data, you’re not practicing design but decoration: “how do we make our factory farm palatable to the livestock we farm so they don’t bolt?”
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