Because tech believes it’s a fork and operating in a parallel universe. If you have been in the programming scene in the 90s, you can understand what I mean. Tech people believe tech is free from soxiety’s legacy issues.
We still see many people truly believe you can be whoever you want to be in tech and your skills are your only limits. They completely ignore how society and power dynamics work because they believe tech created enough space to free everyone from the world’s legacy issues.
Even if there was a mandatory ethics course in CS, I don’t think it’ll be effective before fixing this misconception. Tech is not a parallel universe and has deep impact on the society and is commonly used as a tool to exploit masses because we are in denial.
A lot of people, including myself, used programming as an escape route from the typical problems of our societies in the 90s and earlier. There is a large group of people still believing programming is outside of our realm. This also contributes to the problem.
