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oh please, so now every time someone claims they want to "change lives" we must heap praise on them just in case someone at some point will actually want to do it?

does software change peoples lives? absolutely. should we be encouraging people to participate and build software that can legitimately achieve this? absolutely. is there a pervasiveness in tech to constantly frame, no matter what technology is being worked on, in the light of "changing lives"? in my opinion, yes. I see it constantly in the tech industry, and at this point it is essentially a marketing gimmick. im saying I find it irritating that the tech industry is unable to market themselves and their technologies without this blanket statement.




It's not like that. There is more than two options than heap on criticism or heap on praise.

Try looking at it the other way around. Every time someone claims they want to "change lives" we don't need to heap on criticism.




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