Programming: Politics

This has nothing to do with programming, but is a collection of articles that resonated with me.
Hopefully by recording these in one place it will help me come to some form of solution.

on prioritizing short term business needs	article https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032127/https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778824
asking questions to programmers	http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
on staying employed	https://madned.substack.com/p/an-old-hackers-tips-on-staying-employed