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No place for ethics.
We can try (and fail) to change the world.
Ethics are having a comeback. Many designers say, that making ethical products is going to be their goal. I know a designer who refuses to work for Big-Pharma™ companies, because of his ethics.
People quit Google (remember “Don’t be evil”?) and Facebook because of their unethical practices all the time. But there’s more designers and developers to take their place.
Movements like “Design for the good of humanity” are sprouting all around, and while they can work on a small scale, they’ll never reach any notoriety.
Humans are incompatible with humanity.
This is just how we’re built — as humans. If ethical practices would be enough to make a market share for a product, we’d be doing them even without believing in them. But sadly — they are not.
Someone once said, if something is free, then you’re the product. And this, in the last few years grew into an unethical nightmare that you can see in various interviews, hearings, subpoenas and more.
So while you can make a small startup be fully ethical, you’re not going to make an ethical Instagram, Facebook or Google without first changing how humans work. And if we could change…
