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0 pointsfrompdx5y ago0 comments

Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid accountability at a scale much greater than what was possible with manual process.

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Kalium5y ago

The old saw about computers is that they're designed to allow humans to make millions of mistakes, very quickly and very accurately.

Kinrany5y ago

> Software is being used to avoid accountability

Right, in the same way knives are used to rob people.

This is not a new problem: an organization strategically builds an unmanageable bureacracy and then profits off the issue while claiming incompetence.

Computers just make said bureaucracy cheaper to operate.

phone86753095y ago

Isn't this the basis of the book "IBM and the Holocaust"[1] where the author lays out how IBM's technology helped facilitate the wide scale of Nazi genocide?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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