Post #1460803
2025-12-26 22:19 UTC
@slothrop
Plumbers and bricklayers do essential work. The problem with managing sociotechnical systems through the tech/engineering lens is that the ultimate societal goals tend to get lost as the job becomes less and less prioritised by politics and social issues, but more and more by technical optimisations of the system.
So tech ppl need to either start condidering the ethics of choices they make, and involve sociopolitical stakeholders more.
@dequbed @hazelweakly
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@Marrekoo@urbanists.social 2025-12-26 22:25
@slothrop Conversely, political and social issues requiring technical tools to help solve them, should be able to build on the craftsmanship and experience of techies to deliver stuff that works and that can be maintained. It is hard work to keep these two worlds connected and positively constructive. @dequbed @hazelweakly