Hello y’all. I’ve been trying to understand the software development industry from a societal POV but most sources I find have this liberal corporate bootlicking theme or don’t have much hard data. Search engines provide few good sources 🤔
In specific I would like to see some research in the self-assessment of bullshit job status in the industry or a similar analysis. In my anecdotal experience a gigantic portion of jobs I’ve seen provide basically no benefit to society (but pay well I guess), and I would like to check if this belief of mine holds up scientifically.
Anybody know any places to start?
Sorry I don’t have research references, but I’m not sure you’ll find it anyhow. These industries aren’t keen on researching how useless they actually are, they just do work that their bosses tell them to do, and useful or not, that is that.
But, places to start? Hmmm.
Check out the sources on some Adam Connover podcast episodes of “factually”. Debunking tech hype and I can’t find the episode now but I think he interviewed someone from the Facebook ai team that came out and said they fb didn’t use their code to limit fascism on the platform because it was to effective and cutting into profits. Sorry I can’t be of more help
Good luck!
That’s actually a great suggestion! I actually listened to his episodes on AI and enshitification but completely forgot about it. Thanks comrade!
Another decent podcast is Tech Won’t Save Us.
Never heard of that one, looks pretty cool. Thanks!