The text you quote is not in the article. Perhaps you mean this?:
> Actually, we are in charge now. You just haven’t realized it yet. Automate or be automated. If you don’t know how to map out complex systems. If you never got grounded as a kid for taking things apart. If you are too lazy or unwilling to learn our ways. If you don’t work for us yet, you soon will. Because software is eating the world.
These are things that software engineers tell themselves after they have been bullied in the business world to remind themselves that they are valuable and that they should be respected, despite encountering people sometimes that place no value or respect in either them or the work that they perform.
Perhaps you could try and share what about the text feels evil to you, though? Why does it feel threatening to you?
Not OP but if you can't tell how vindictive that sounds, I guess we just come from different worlds. I certainly wouldn't trust someone who said that in a position of power over others in the slightest.
If somebody is going to get upset at some offensive language he's almost certainly the sort of person who will continually get walked on, since acceptance is the primary component of the worldview.
> Actually, we are in charge now. You just haven’t realized it yet. Automate or be automated. If you don’t know how to map out complex systems. If you never got grounded as a kid for taking things apart. If you are too lazy or unwilling to learn our ways. If you don’t work for us yet, you soon will. Because software is eating the world.
These are things that software engineers tell themselves after they have been bullied in the business world to remind themselves that they are valuable and that they should be respected, despite encountering people sometimes that place no value or respect in either them or the work that they perform.
Perhaps you could try and share what about the text feels evil to you, though? Why does it feel threatening to you?