Not Required to be Appreciated

A Jewish Teacher teaches a German Student in the early 1900s Math. Later that Jewish Teacher sees the student they taught lining up Jewish people on train cars, using the same Math the Teacher taught them to oppress.

Take away? Teachers are not required to be appreciated. There is no guarantee that those you train today will not use that training against you tomorrow. Morality and Ethics should be a given does not equal Morality and Ethics is a given.

Small Contributions not appreciated, oppression allowed to run rampant is not a consequence free system.

The World needs Engineers. Systems require maintenance. Systems can be turned oppressive on a dime and without fail safes in place it can be hard to prevent in the future. A system that constantly tests ethics on Engineers and leaves them between having a roof over their head and left out on the street amplifies less than ideally over time.

Weary Engineers have the potential for decreasing total amount of Engineers. Less Oppression to fight, Oppression reduced earlier rather than later can be a lot of Power.

Easy to comprehend the danger in building a gun. The gun could end up in the wrong hands tomorrow and be used against the designer of that gun. Harder to comprehend the danger in a math lesson, in a lesson about running a business. What and how much people can be trusted with is not always agreed upon.

Design and Engineering, building systems would ideally be 100% appreciated for value added without loss of support for the non ideals the system introduces. Helicopters means Care Flights that can save lives. Helicopters means Machine Guns and RPGs. The future changes designs from original intent in both ideal and non ideal ways at times.

People are not Perfect. Engineers are People. Engineers design Less than Perfect, Less than Ideal systems without full comprehension of the potential value a system can add to the future and without full comprehension of the potential value a system can take away from the future. All served over a Max Profit system that factors into who gets food and a roof over their head at the end of the day amplifies less than ideally.

An Engineer building and drilling a water well. Locals could question their loyalty. The Locals could test the Engineers loyalty to insure better water supply. The Engineer could pass 5 of the tests but fail the sixth due to fatigue. The tests delay and then halt the drilling of the well completely.

Extra Tests from Oppression are weight and have potential for limiting Throughput in very non null ways.

Not saying God always listens to my Prayers, I would say a Prayer worth making everyday is for Less Oppression in the World. Engineering systems are more and more powerful everyday, limiting oppressive momentum that is hard to turn down in advance can be a lot of power. Bandwagon appeal and Pop culture has the potential for atrocities left unchecked.