"We'll just stop training and we'll be profitable!"

By hijacking a real person's credentials, that person becomes the accountability sink. Very neat. Very deliberate.

If you're looking for the ones responsible for bringing this on, just look in the mirror.

How can you say both "oh, people won't need jobs anymore! I'm excited that technology is going to replace what I do" and "oh, I can't speak up about the things my company is doing, I need this job!" in the same breath?

What happens when that well dries up?

Plus the relative freedom available to said hackers in the past, that is now being choked by the very same tools they've built.

We like to think of ourselves as capable systems designers, coming up with complex reliable/durable/highly-available/distributed systems to be proud of. But we can't stop and think about the only system that really matters in the end.

* Not saying it was 100% the case, nothing ever is, but you can't deny that a large part of historic and modern hacker culture grew from well off places who could afford it. Sure, sure "necessity is the mother of all invention" and all that, but that breeds a different kind of innovation.

Facebook, etc. can wash their hands when they "accidentally" serve gambling ads (or whatever) to children and say "well it's not our fault the parent has the laptop misconfigured"

It's classic blaming the victim.

But it suuucks, making it hard to read, the same way (some) fast/junk food is hard to swallow.

They have access to a trillion dollar writing machine god, and they choose to publish that.

gun = smoking

insight = key

gap = closed

summary = executived