Why do engineers know this but if the boss tells them to do it anyway they meekly comply? What if engineers refused to cooperate with bad engineering orders?

What if I live out of my car?

As a nomad traveling around with a phone and ancient Surface I hardly use, do you see how having a built-in CD player like cars used to have and which I got used to is much more convenient, and the decision to take it away seems much more to do with power and selling subscriptions than practical engineering capability?

What if an 8-track enthusiast engineer designed cars such that 8-track users could plug a player in to use the car's speakers?

Why ignore the article which is about pushing consumers away from standalone tech like CD players (still popular and significantly more so than 8-track) to force subscriptions on us? Why deliberately make it hard to plug a CD player in to the speakers, if they refuse to provide CD players like they got us used to?

Why do the people paying you not understand that selling subscriptions to enclosed abundance produces crap, and why shouldn't you live off a Fed-funded, generous, inflation-adjusted basic income and design free software for devices that won't brick themselves on remote command?

So if I strive for ethical and moral conduct too much, am I unemployable?

How does abusive DRM get coded? Why don't the engineers say "I'm sorry boss, I can't code that because it is unethical"?

Are you saying the engineers who write the subscription software should take money for designing things they themselves realize are stupid? Is this a perverse capitalist incentives problem, and why isn't a basic income one way of changing the current power dynamic?

What about a generous inflation-proofed basic income so engineers could design things they wanted to use themselves instead of subscription services and obstacles to stand-alone solutions?

What if my computer has no CD drive? Do you see how inefficient, expensive, and impractical this is becoming?

How can I rip CDs to a phone? Why isn't it more efficient, except economically, to put a CD player in new cars? Is there really no demand or are they forcing subscription audio on us like it was AI?

"It's not efficient for anybody to cater to esoteric tastes, even if they're good tastes."

Remember when the promise of technology was the long tail? Why is it economically inefficient yet engineeringly easy to put CDs in new cars?

Why do so many engineers who should know better build the subscription software for thoughtless finance guy bosses focused on revenue stream over something the engineer himself wants to use? Why do engineers so eagerly toss common-sense efficiency away to do whatever their greedy, selfish bosses tell them?

Why won't capitalists buy the regulators, because poor voters hate being regulated too?

"Basic income still needs to be funded through taxes,"

Why, when the Fed can print money faster than prices rise? How disruptive to the Quantity theory of money is the fact that base money has increased some 600% since 2008 while cumulative inflation has increased about 50%? Does that not represent a sizeable increase in real purchasing power?