'We’ve got all these tech companies filled with very young, very inexperienced, often white boys...'
Wow. I got a taste of this attitude studying my MSc in early 2000s. We were forced to attend a couple of men-bashing lectures because the programme had apparently been criticised for being 'too technical'.
It was an Info Science masters; technical was what I was after when I signed up :|
Teachers need an oath too: "I shall not give you an unemployable degree and saddle you with debt."
We already got one. It’s called cash Money
Army doctors heal soldiers so they can go out and kill more people. The Hippocratic Oath is rarely applied to indirect harm.
An oath in the same spirit for knowledge workers would be meaningless, since their work never does any direct harm.
If such an oath is instead applied to indirect harm, how many levels of indirection is enough to wash your hands of all harm?