ARE DESIGN ETHICS USELESS?

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

With so many companies disrespecting the needs and rights of users, a lot of it has become a sort of standard practice. There are three key reasons for that: Designers are not really in control, everyone has an ethic (even criminals) so it doesn’t mean they’re good because of them, and good design requires design organizations so individual designers can’t be blamed for an organization’s poor choices.