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Why put this on programmers? The guy making the decision to make Dragonfly is a Stanford MBA with a materials background. It's not some working class kid who made it through a Javascript bootcamp that is making decisions about the direction of future Google products. So, why don't we let the MBAs be the ones to form an ethical organization to police themselves.

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I feel that many MBA's treat immoral behavior as just PR debt.

It's not like programmers are some different moral class. "Many of X are immoral" applies to almost all X.

I guess the difference is that the management track rewards immoral behavior - the higher you go the more of it you'll see.

Because you get paid to do the work, if a person X comes up to you and offers Y amount to do certain tasks which may be seen to be unethical or gross but the Y amount is significant. It's the programmer that chooses.

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