“Engineers don’t do ethics courses and this is why Silicon Valley...” is a classist slur designed to reallocate social status between engineers and virtuous paragons like journalists, MBAs, legislators, health insurance executives, lawyers, and others who take ethics classes.
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You're right about the $ numbers. Class and comp aren't always the same. Patrick seems to be talking about society wide, where NYTimes journos are higher class than SWE. You seem to talk about within a tech co. I suspect you're both right.
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(a) people are saying Engrs need training in ethics (b) math, sci, CS are great vectors for social & $ mobility since the skills are measurable So, can eng programs add high-quality ethics courses without also requiring students to jump through relationship-based hoops?
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