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Opinion: For engineers, no good deed goes unpunished

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Bottom line: engineers and scientists have been diminished in stature over the last half-century because they succeeded beyond almost anyone's expectations, including their own. The writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." We've taken the magic and thus the awe out of it, and made it seem routine and effortless, but now we find out that making accomplishments routine and effortless translates into an outcome which is neither admired nor acknowledged.

... well, the dilemma, to use the wizard parallel ...
... is distinguishing between white and black magic ...
... the ones that have done something "for the people" are praised "by the people" ...
... the ones that have done something for themselves ...
... like the designers of goldman sucks marginal instant trading machine skim for god ...
... are praised by goldman sucks and hated by the people on universal scale ...
... the difference is between "puppet master" and "no puppet masters" ...
... white magic and black magic ...
... the pact with the devil on a mission for god cost faust the soul ...
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