Programmer privilege

A question to those of you that know more about this than I do:

I'm a mid-career professional programmer. I'd like to make this situation better. What are some concrete things that I can do to help?

Original article: http://www.pgbovine.net/tech-privilege.htm

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7015222

Why is this reposted?