Puerile:
behaving in a silly way, not like an adult:
I find his sense of humour rather puerile. [Cambridge Dictionary]
Noted in “HOW SILICON VALLEY BOYS CAME TO RULE POLITICS,” Carolina A. Miranda, WaPo:
I knew that facing the end of constitutional checks and balances during Trump 2.0 would be bad; I didn’t realize it would be so relentlessly puerile. To some degree, we have Silicon Valley — and the broader tech business — to thank for this.
The problem with not making it important that the workers be actual grown-ups, adults who need to put their best judgment forward in order to safeguard the company, institution, or government, is that they then don’t make that transition; they often remain high school juniors, fixated on impressing their fellows in their class in their chosen field of being clever. It’s not computing, it’s being clever. There’s no associated learning curves, you just be clever and that’s how you achieve dominance over your fellows, because it’s a bother to learn to think outside of the box, unless it confirms your bias.
Compare to, say, an aerospace engineer, or a civil engineer. Lives are on the line; refusing to learn how to judge a problem along multiple axes, such as moral as well as technical, can cost lives, which in turn ruins your career.
In software, lives are rarely on the line, unless you work, again, in aerospace. When you lose a job, you just move on to the next of the Greedy and Needy, the group of companies who see riches in their future if they can just harness software to do something. Take their paychecks until they figure out you’re incompetent, lazy, immoral, or whatever. Rinse, lather…
Another consequence of worshiping wealth, a problem dating back to old Roman times, and I’m sure historians would point even further.
